Matter is a new startup accelerator which aims to reinvent public media. At the Media Lab today, Corey Ford, Jake Shapiro, and Jigar Mehta (who spoke at the Media Lab earlier this semester), are holding a conversation on the mission and details of Matter, the application process, and the culture that […]
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The poetry of human journeys has been an enduring reservoir of human experience since our earliest days–arresting and inspiring even the most cynical among us. It siezed my imagination as a teenager reading Egil’s saga. It led me through six years of academic study on literature and writing. Today at Harvard, listening to […]
How are activists in Southeast Asia using a hybrid mix of old and new media for change? Today’s lunch at the Berkman Center is a talk by Andrew Lowenthal, co-founder and executive director of Engage Media, an Asia-Pacific human rights and environmental video organisation who work to develop strategic networks […]
Let’s SEO the Bible! — Paul Ford (@ftrain) November 17, 2012 A few weeks ago, I received a fascinating package in the mail. It was a copy of the gospel of Luke interleaved with graph paper and QR codes. In this post, I interview the creators of Uncover, review it, […]
Sunday at the Mozilla Festival in London, I facilitated a group session on curating and repackaging citizen video for the news. This blog post was written with @SarahMarshall3, technology editor at Journalism.co.uk. Our session included discussion and ideas from a rockstar cast from mainstream media, activism, news tech development, local […]