I’m at Social Media Consensus, a gathering of Web 2.0, Silicon Valley and nonprofit folks at the Socialtext offices in Palo Alto, Calif., talking about social media and the impact of the Internet on society. We’re going through workshop exercises designed by two social media execs at Microsoft UK. Those on hand include Stowe Boyd, […]
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Web 2.0 video: The Machine is Us/ing Us
Wonderful 5-minute video on YouTube titled Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us
Announcing the Open Media Coalition
Today we’re launching a new initiative called the Open Media Coalition. The idea is a simple one: Too often, open media efforts get mired in vertical silos. Project teams and developers don’t talk or collaborate across different initiatives. So a group of us decided it was time to create a working group of developers and […]
Mashup Camp
I couldn’t attend Day 1 of Mashup Camp (at which Lawrence Lessig spoke), because I was out of town, but Day 2 was a doozy. Here are 5 photos I took today. Mashup Camp could well have been named Web 2.0 Camp — it was a celebration and display of some of the astounding new […]
Joined the Society for New Communications Research
Yesterday I had coffee with Jennifer McClure, founder and executive director of the Society for New Communications Research, along with Steven King from the Institute for the Future. The Society’s blogzine is here. Their vision is: “To be the leading think tank for the advanced study of new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of […]