Action! (Knight@MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media 2)
“Thus we seek to bestir the people into an awareness of their own condition, provide inspiration for their thoughts and rouse them to pursue their true interests.” John S. Knight, 1969 Chris...
View ArticleGrantee roundup (Knight@MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media 3)
Rick Borovoy from nTAG interactive is telling us about how we’ve been interacting with members of other groups. The groups are Knight Foundation staff (there are a lot of them here and they’ve been...
View ArticleNew England News Forum
Dave Mathison, author of Be the Media is opening Sharing the news: Reaching students, training citizens New England News Forum ‘s one-day event here at UMass Lowell (watch it live here, follow #nenf on...
View ArticleComing to Conclusions
I have been a certified “dead blogger” recently thanks to focusing all writing energy on white paper trying to summarize all the stuff I’ve learning during my wonderful year here at Berkman. But I did...
View ArticleVote for human rights media!
Just a few hours left to cast your vote for the audience award for next Saturday’s Every Human Has Rights Media Awards. There are 30 finalists, and the professional jury has already made its choices....
View ArticleTED envy, 2009 edition
For the second time since I started my wonderful year at the Berkman Center, I’m devouring my friend Ethan Zuckerman‘s blogposts about the TED conference. (He was delayed getting there by travel...
View ArticleWhole world(wideweb) in my hand(held device)
It’s one thing to say, as I frequently have, (though to my embarrassment not nearly enough in my Media Re:public papers), that handheld devices will be the computers and the internet platforms of most...
View ArticleMedia in Transition (MiT6 at MIT)
I’m honored (not to mention intimidated) to be joining a panel with some of my favorite super-smart people (Ellen Hume, Pat Aufderheide, Jessica Clark, rock star* Jake Shapiro plus Dean Jansen whom I...
View ArticleWhat Twitter is good for
Today’s local gov’t digital responsivess score: Boston Police 1, MBTA 0 Riding the #1 bus across the Charles to Cambridge for the last half-day of Media in Transition this morning, was mildly horrified...
View ArticleMy Netroots Nation Vacation
Winding down my vacation here in Netroots Nation with a delicious, union-made Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat beer, thoughtfully provided by Working America and the AFLCIO. Trying to process my thoughts and...
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