A Vast Wasteland, Five Decades Later
Fifty years ago, Newton Minow, the 35 year old FCC chairman, gave a speech that’s still studied today. It’s taught in rhetoric courses, tested on… Read More »A Vast Wasteland, Five Decades Later
Metrics for civic impacts of journalism
How do news organizations measure impact? That’s the question I found myself talking with Phil Bronstein of the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week. He’d… Read More »Metrics for civic impacts of journalism
Mohamed Nanabhay and Joi Ito at Center for Civic Media
Yes, it’s sad that I’m blogging a talk three days late. But these were really good presentations, and I wanted to get a record of… Read More »Mohamed Nanabhay and Joi Ito at Center for Civic Media
Visions of civic media, from Chris Csikszentmihalyi and Sasha Constanza Chock
This notes are an inaccurate as any of my liveblogging, and they’re late to boot. :-) Here are notes from our session Thursday morning at… Read More »Visions of civic media, from Chris Csikszentmihalyi and Sasha Constanza Chock
Closing thoughts at the Knight-Civic Media Conference
A note – I’m waaaay behind on liveblogging because I’ve been on stage throughout much of the Civic Media conference. But I promise to catch… Read More »Closing thoughts at the Knight-Civic Media Conference
Four Questions about Civic Media
The weekend before MIT’s Center for Civic Media conference, I was at a family reunion with my wife’s family, in Bandera, Texas. And while my… Read More »Four Questions about Civic Media