Here are some images I took at the MIT Media Lab on Thursday and Friday at the Future of Civic Media conference.
Highlights of Future of Civic Media
Some takeaways from the Future of Civic Media conference, showcasing Knight News Challenge winners, that ended yesterday at the MIT Media Lab in Boston: • All in all, it was a fascinating gathering of some of the real thought leaders who will be driving new media forward in the coming years. The program grew stronger […]
The most useful new media sites
Guy Berger, an educator from South Africa, is here at the Future of Civic Media conference at MIT, did an informal of several participants, and came up with this very good list of the most useful new media sites. Guy, who is head of the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in […]
Photos of Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt
Here is a Flickr photo set I shot last week at a fund-raiser in Richmond, Calif., for the Los Cenzontles Mexican cultural center, featuring Los Lobos, Taj Mahal, Linda Ronstandt and student dancers. (Bet you don’t know what Linda looks like these days!) Had a fantastico time with 150 others at the intimate gathering. I’ll […]
Smart mobs for news participation
Social Actions from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Following is part 3 of my 3-part series on open APIs and crowdsourcing community news. Cross-posted from the IdeaLab. Part 1, Part 2. At the NetSquared conference for nonprofits in San Jose on May 27-28, one of the most intriguing projects I heard about was Social Actions, a […]