Bill Ives at FASTForward Blog: Dean Takahashi at Venture Beat shared with us a summary of a recent Deloitte survey on the state of media. The report concludes that, “We’re living in a media democracy, where no single form of media dominates the attention of Americans. It’s also an age where everyone contributes to the […]
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Independent journalism benefit
I’m heading into San Francisco now for this event: Support Independent Journalism in the Bay Area! Benefiting: Newsdesk.org and The Public Press When: Dec. 4, 6:30 – 8:30 PM Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin (bet. Geary & O’Farrell), San Francisco For more information: Support Independent Journalism in the Bay Area! About The Public Press: […]
Crowd-funded journalism site Spot.us launches
Spot.us, a new site that supports crowd-funded journalism, has just launched. You can start a story or fund a story by pledging a certain amount. Story pitched this week: How safe are San Francisco Bay beaches and water a year after the Cosco Busan oil spill? $200 has been raised toward an $800 goal. Meantime, […]
Drupal: Open-source publishing
Drupal: open-source publishing from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I hung out Monday night with Dries Buytaert, founder and creator of Drupal, the open source content management system that is now powering tens of thousands of websites, including Ourmedia, The Onion, Sony Music artists (see myplay.com) and many others. Also spent time with Jay Batson, co-founder […]
NowPublic’s Scan feature
Reposted from Dries Buytaert, another NowPublic advisor: NowPublic has launched an interesting new feature called Scan. First, they aggregate data from sites like Twitter, identi.ca and Pownce in near real-time. Then they aggregate the information, filter it by keywords, geo-locate it, and conveniently present it on a dashboard. Like that, you can see what is […]