The audio recording of last week’s Power To Change The World Summit is online and well worth a listen for anyone who cares about media as a force for change in the world. You’ll find the Change Summit audio here. The context was thinking about media for the next hundred years. You probably think in […]
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is offering big bucks to support innovation in community journalism. The deadline for this year’s Knight News Challenge is Oct. 15. This is a big deal, especially in the U.S. where the commercial news industry is in decline. But it’s a big deal everywhere – in a […]
Here’s an update on who’s coming to the Oct. 24 Power To Change The World summit, a one-day event Dale and I are organizing for UPI in Washington. More details at: www.changesummit.com. The early-bird registration expires Sept. 20. To register, go here. Confirmed participants include: Tom Bosco, VP and head of sales, MySpaceTV; Merrill Brown, […]
What’s more interesting: Jeff Jarvis skewering Yahoo!, or the smiling ass next to the story? It’s an ad for a … well, never mind, see for yourself. Meetup founder Scott Heiferman rightly notes that the ass web site is not just good, smart or prolific, like Jeff. In Scott’s words, it’s … transcendent. Yes. See […]
(We’re catching up – we sent these iSIGHTINGS to our email subscribers on Aug. 7. If you aren’t on our email list, you can sign up here. Trust us. Or trust me. Trust systems are one of the cornerstones of iFOCOS work. We’ve posited that trust is in flux: diverse communities in a society shaped […]
iFOCOS founders Dale Peskin and Andrew Nachison are organizing an event this fall in Washington, DC. It should be of interest to anyone who thinks the greatest opportunities for the connected society are in using media and communications technologies to improve the world. The event is called The Power to Change the World, (www.changesummit.com), a […]
Maybe you thought to yourself, gosh, wouldn’t it be nifty to take a walk in the middle of a big hurricane? Or maybe you’d settle for the video. Here are some videos of Hurricane Dean posted to Weather.com by eyewitnesses in Grand Cayman, Belize and Playa Del Carmen. The video sharing setup (more here) is […]
Giving up control is difficult. Last week the US mobile phone company Sprint Nextel unveiled a new brand, Xohm, for its much-anticipated next-generation wireless broadband WiMax service. With the new brand Sprint also seems to be trying to shed its "our way or the highway" heritage, shared with wireless carriers around the globe who have […]
Congratulations to We Media alums Merrill Brown and Michael Tippet, who now get to figure out how to spend $10.6 million of funding for NowPublic, a "crowd powered" news service that has partnered with The Associated Press and that does not want to follow in the footsteps of failed citizen journalism predecessors Bayosphere and Backfence. […]
Like the Wall Street Journal’s Bancroft family, private equity firm PCM has been in a selling mood of late. Selling: a huge chunk of its holdings in US newspaper companies. Then again, those companies are on track for a $2 billion decline in revenue, year-over-year. See: Reflections of a Newsosaur: PCM dumps publishers Andrew NachisonAndrew […]