Picnic 08: Aaron Koblin Visualizes the World
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffAaron Koblin is a data visualization geek. He believes that “data systems tell stories about our lives”, and he’s in the business of building beautiful, poetic images that tell those stories. Some of his earliest works looked ...
A24 – An Online Marketplace for African Video Content
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffSalim Amin has some big shoes to fill. His father, Mohamed Amin, is widely regarded as one of Africa’s finest photojournalists. He covered Ethiopian famine, the fall of Idi Amin and of Mengistu, and recorded some ...
Media Re:public – What’s Broken in Journalism, and Can Citizen Media Help Fix It?
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffMy friend and colleague Persephone Miel presented her recent research as part of the Media Re:public project, a research effort sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation to study the role of citizen media in the larger universe ...
Whole Earth in Hindsight
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIt's no secret that Whole Earth, both the catalogs and the magazine, were huge influences on Worldchanging. Indeed, Stewart Brand has been one of our heroes. Plenty has a sort of oral history of the WEC up ...
Parochialism and Cultural Export… or Why Titanic is France’s Best-Grossing Film
Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffI mentioned a few posts back that I found individual sentences in Paul Starr’s brilliant “Creation of the Media” worth remembering and exploring later. One sentence that stuck with me was his observation that, despite Thomas ...
The Two Faces of Economic Reporting
Monday, September 1st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffGDP up, incomes down. Why bother reporting about GDP at all? This just cheeses me off. Yesterday, the US government released figures showing that GDP grew at an annualized pace of 3.3%. The implicit message: Yippee, ...
Misunderstanding Cyberwar
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThere’s nothing like the term “cyberwar” to capture a reader’s attention. For those who grew up on “Wargames”, “Sneakers” or William Gibson novels, the term conjures up images of heroic hackers in shadowy basements, frantically tapping ...
AP’s Ethnography of News Consumption
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffA media group in continuous operation since 1846 may not be the company you should look to for advice on the future of media. Or maybe they should: the Associated Press is both doing well in ...
Polymeme and Distributed Agenda-Setting
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffA couple of weeks back, I was wondering what functions “we” - which could mean “media geeks,” “people who care about journalism” or “people who believe that informed citizens are important in a democracy” - should ...
Social Lions, Fiscally-Literate Mobile Phones
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffOne of the best parts of this gathering at Microsoft is not the cool new toys coming from Microsoft research, but the ideas presented by nine design schools who’ve been invited to the event. In a ...
Saving Sections of the Daily Newspaper
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThere’s nothing like a meeting on the future of journalism to get you concerned about the future of journalism. While there are some brilliant and exciting ideas discussed at conferences like the Knight Foundation-sponsored meeting I ...
High Country News’ New Website
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThe venerable High Country News -- one of the leaders in North American rural lands reporting for a couple decades now -- has a new website, designed by our friends at ONE Northwest, and it pretty ...
The Ongoing Debate on the Digital Future of Journalism
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThe John S. and James L. Knight Foundation supports a huge range of journalistic programs, ranging from experimental efforts in community journalism to massive players in the media ecosystem like National Public Radio. 180 of their ...
The Fallacy of Examples, and the Problems of Extrapolating from Media
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffDavid Weinberger has an intriguing post up today about the “Fallacy of Examples“. He’s reacting to a column from Nick Kristof in the New York Times titled “The Luckiest Girl“, which recounts the story of Beatrice ...
Simple Examples of Cool Ideas – Last Post from MIT Conference
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffPart of the fun of having an academic life based in Cambridge, MA, is that you've gotten to see a great deal of the most exciting research taking place in this insanely academic city. The last ...
Cellphones, Civic Media and Conversations with Winged Carnivores
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIt's the third day of MIT's Future of Civic Media Conference, and I'm still finding that I can't get the phrase "civic media" to come out of my mouth. Must be all those years of trying ...
Activism, Art and Future Civic Media
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffChris Csikszentmihalyi is an artist and provocateur as well as a programmer, inventor and professor. The projects he's most excited about within MIT's Center for Future Civic Media focus on the interface between political action, art, ...
New Media, New Voices
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThis morning's session at the MIT conference on the Future of Civic Media focuses on new voices and new media. I'm giving the closing talk in the session, talking about the 10 projects that currently comprise ...
Future Civic Media at MIT. Shiny!
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffI'm at MIT this week at the Center for Future Civic Media Conference, a conference that's bringing together two years of winners of the Knight News Challenge for discussions about innovation in journalism. The host is ...
The Ninja Gap
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffDavid Weinberger somehow manages to find time to write books, write thoughtful blog posts, AND produce a periodic newsletter - Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization - that’s one of he best reads on the ‘net. I’m ...