Frank Sesno of “Planet Forward.” One approach: Newsrooms could attract a crowdsourced pool of community advisers At Sustainatopia — the Caribbean-flavored conference in Miami that brought social entrepreneurs, VCs, journalists, artisans, celebrities, media activists and a fair number of Miami’s beautiful people together for a celebration of sustainability — an interesting discussion broke out […]
New media
‘Curation Nation’ & ‘Mediactive’: A new era in media
What’s this? Even in an age of democratized media, where the barbarians have not only stormed the gates but made a nice bouillabaisse out of the media guardians formerly known as The Gatekeepers, there’s a need for curators? Well, yes. In fact, curators are needed now more than ever, Steve Rosenbaum argues in his fun, insightful, passionate and satisfying new book Curation Nation. Curators, you might say, are the distant cousins of gatekeepers.
The benefits of structuring your data using microformats
Google’s Rich Snippet Testing Tool Last week we discussed how the Semantic Web relies upon markup languages that tag Web content, making it easier for machines to interpret. This can be accomplished in a number of ways, including tagging content as structured data or linked data. Today we’ll take a look at marking up your […]
Why isn’t law part of the social media conversation?
At BlogWorld Expo earlier this month, I ran into attorney-podcaster Christina Gagnier (pictured above), and we got to talking about the law, since we met a few years ago after publication of my book Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation.
Christina, who describes herself on her Twitter account as an “IP & Tech Lawyer, Online Strategist, Information Broker, Tech Policy Geek,” remarked that she was struck by the fact that BlogWorld had absolutely zero panels about the intersection of copyright law and grassroots media.
She then invited me to sit in as a guest on the new TechZulu Law show that she and co-host Lisa Borodkin launched earlier this month. Here’s a link to our discussion.
Storify: Make stories using social media
I’m at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco reporting for Yammer.
Almost a full year ago I wrote an analyst report entitled “Real-Time Search and Discovery of the Social Web” (get your copy of the 20-page PDF), and I argued that one of the failures of the value of the real-time web is the lack of editors monitoring the data and then republishing it in a digested form.