If you want to know what it’s like pitching a new media project, just go to the experts: This South Park clip, a classic in its own right, is a favorite around the MIT Center for Future Civic Media because every single new media project — ours and those from […]
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From The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World, a symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission’s Broadband Initiative (broadband.gov). MIT Tech TV Keynote address by Eugene Huang, Director of Government Performance and Civic Engagement for the FCC’s National […]
Okay, enough people have (re)berated poor Clifford Stoll, whose 1995 essay The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana resurfaced and, yes, is still so curmudgeony that it makes Dennis the Menace’s Mr. Wilson sound like Pangloss. To wit: What the Internet hucksters won’t tell […]
(Update: Adam Klawonn responds below. Post has been updated with his noted correction.) The Zonie Report, a project by Adam Klawonn, has decided to shut its virtual doors, for now. Klawonn writes: I learned some hard lessons in my idealistic crusade to bring better, more innovative journalism to the expectant […]
Chris Csikszentmihályi in the Columbia Journalism Review on Looking for Haiti’s Lost, Online: A blog or BBS (bulletin board system) is great for chronologically ordering stories or conversations, but the serial format leaves much to desire for exhaustive searches, and two blogs are more than twice as bad. If a […]