$6B challenge: Innovate political campaigns

Here’s a question for American ingenuity: How could $6 billion be used to stimulate the economy? Republicans and Democrats alike answered this way in recent weeks: Spend it on television for bad political advertising. More than $6 billion was spent in the 2012 election, making it the most expensive and wasteful in history. The irony […]

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Oui Media: It’s academic

The introduction I wrote for our seminal We Media report is soon to be part of the educational lexicon in France. Here’s what I wrote in 2003: “There are three ways to look at how society is informed. The first is that people are gullible and will read, listen to, or watch just about anything. […]

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Speak-to-tweet leaps Egypt’s Repression 2.0

With most Internet services blocked, Google quickly created a “speak-to-tweet” service to allow people in Egypt to tweet with a voice connection. It allows those on the ground in Egypt to dial three international numbers and leave a voice message sent out as tweet with the #egypt hash tag. You can listen to the messages […]

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Rachel Sterne to steer NYC’s digital direction

Rachel Sterne becomes New York City’s first chief digital officer. The Ground Report founder, who’ll give up her citizen journalism site as well her consulting practice, has been a friend and frequent contributor to We Media. She’ll work with the city’s Economic Development Corporation to improve New York’s image as a home for technological innovation […]

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The revolution within the revolution: How mobile devices and social media changed Tunisia

What is revealing about this revolution is the way in which citizens discovered it, how they informed one another, and how they mobilized around it. They used their mobile phones, now ubiquitous in North Africa, to communicate via text messaging and Twitter. For many Tunisians, their phones are their Internet. Theirs is a story about the democratization of media, a social revolution that wields the power to change lives as well as governments

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The future of documents

What if all the documents in your life were dynamic – from newspapers, magazines and books to bills, insurance policies, receipts, user manuals for all your gear – and packaging, structures and surfaces everywhere?

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