New media

Spent Thursday at the first New Communications Forum in Palo Alto, Calif., put on by the Society for New Communications Research, a nonprofit think tank. (Day two will be Friday.) Here are 12 photos I took today. The conference has a blogzine that’s reporting on panels here. Plus, a couple of people are blogging it. […]

It’s a sad state of affairs when you’re too busy to even blog your own public appearances. But, better late than never. Here are two events I’ll be speaking at this week: Today (Monday, Feb. 27) I’ll be giving a presentation at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. […]

I had the pleasure yesterday of giving a presentation on citizens media and Ourmedia to author Howard Rheingold’s Digital Journalism class at Stanford University. Other speakers during the semester include Craig Newmark (tomorrow), Dan Gillmor and Fabrice Florin. This was a very plugged-in group of students (including six Knight fellows). Everyone knew about blogging and […]

Andrew Nachison at the Editors BlogConf in Seoul: In a session I chaired yesterday at the World Editor’s Forum in Seoul, Google News creator Krishna Bharat revealed, well, virtually nothing about the sources Google spiders and “clusters” to create Google News, other than that it’s “more than” 4,500 – a number the company had cited […]

Markos Moulitsas Martin Nisenholtz I was shocked when I learned this morning (I was flying yesterday) about Monday’s announcement that the New York Times is placing all of its op-ed columnists behind a $50-a-year pay firewall starting in September. Shocked probably isn’t too strong a term. Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan castigated the Times for withdrawing […]