I’m at the E&P/MediaWeek Interactive Media Conference in Miami. Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen just announced the winners of the News Challenge, in which $12 million in grants were announced out of the five-year program’s $25 million contest. The goal is to help lead journalism into its digital future. I got to meet nearly all […]
A chat with Robert Greenwald
Director Robert Greenwald just released a new video: Impeach Alberto Gonzales – The president won’t fire him, but YOU can. Here’s a two-minute video interview I conducted with Greenwald on Friday at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. (Ourmedia page | watch video)
The camera phone turns 10
The Associated Press profiles the man who invented the first camera phone 10 years ago, and what the camera phone has wrought: Camera phone inventor awed by its power today. Excerpt: "It’s had a massive impact because it’s just so convenient," said Philippe Kahn, a tech industry maverick whose other pioneering efforts include the founding […]
Final scenes from Personal Democracy Forum
Here is a Flickr photo set from the Personal Democracy Forum. And a couple of last vignettes: – From co-founder Micah Sifry in a passing conversation about the two schools of thought at grassroots politics conferences: "It comes down to this. Is it about getting more videos out there, or is it about organizing the […]
Personal Democracy Forum unconference
Just finished a one-hour session at day two of Personal Democracy Forum in New York. Like the unconference setup quite a bit. I was expecting about six or so folks to gather around a table, but 30 people jammed into a conference room to discuss the topic I wrote on the board: Remix Politics channels. […]