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Inside the Mind's Eye: Communicating Science in a New Media Era (MWV41)

Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people get their... more

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Facebook unveils profile pages redesign‎ - do you like them?

Mark Zuckerberg's profile page as viewed with Facebook's new... more

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Wane Enterprises Launches Gotham Radio.. Artist Rejoice !!

Ok as always Wane Enterprises is always making moves and leading the pack. Wane... more

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How Community Organizers Can Use New Media

Advocates from Feministing.com and Color Alliance discuss new media and how community... more

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New Media Film Festival

New Media Film Festival will be held on June 11th, 12th, and 13th at the Downtown... more

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Why is Custer's Revenge trending?

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I flew into Istanbul, Turkey a few hours ago. Coasted above the Mediterranean along the coastline from the European side as the city grew to our left. And grew. And grew. (PS - Istanbul is huge. LA huge.) The rolling hills of the city are carpeted with buildings and punctuated every now and then by minarets. That was the most striking feature of the skyline for me. These little spikes jutting up higher than their surroundings. (It's exactly the sort of skyline the Swiss just voted to avoid.)

Pictures to come, I promise.

What am I doing in Turkey? I was invited to come speak at a conference by Internews, an organization that describes itself as "an international media development organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect, and the means to make their voices heard." So you can see where the connection to Current is.

I'm speaking (tomorrow) about recent developments in journalism, both good and bad. How, in the US, the business of journalism is in crisis but within that crisis is great opportunity. Using new technologies that open media up to a wider range of voices we could actually save/improve/fix/better journalism. It's actually why Current was founded and it's what I spend a lot of my time thinking about.

I'm going to focus on my favorite examples of new directions in journalism. Here's a few of them:
- ProPublica's Reporting Network which asks you to help them report their stories
- Demotix, a photography citizen journalism site
- Spot.us which works to "crowd-fund" journalistic work

If you have any favorite sites you think I should include, let me know. Otherwise, I'll let you all know how the speech goes over. And, hopefully, I'll be able to introduce you to some folks from around Asia and Europe who are here for the conference (the list of countries represented boggles the mind: Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, etc, etc).

Also - what about Turkey? Any burning questions you'd want asked of the Turks? I'll ask 'em!

Stay tuned!

Recently on the Current News Blog:
- 1 in 4 US children on food stamps - Real Recovery
- While you were feasting: Swiss minarets, bin Laden blunders, Iran nuclear enrichment
- Hasn't this just been a whole year of Black Friday? - Real Recovery
- The recession visualized - Real Recovery
- California's education crisis - Join the group on CurrentI flew into Istanbul, Turkey a few hours ago. Coasted above the Mediterranean along... more

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Feed It While It’s Young -The advantages of being the early bird on innovation.

Feed It While It’s Young -The advantages of being the early bird on innovation.... more

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Tangible Knowledge & Social Media

Here’s an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a... more

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Not All Web Sites Are Created Equal

Editor & Publisher has been sold, and its new owners plan to shift the focus out... more

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Houston Makes Big Splash With Music Video

The Greater Houston Convention and Visitor's Bureau has used unconventional... more

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Google to limit free access to news articles

Newspaper publishers will now be able to set a limit on the number of free news... more

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Documentary Filmmaker Kevin Epps to speak at iConference!

Check out the links, please attend or join us online for this event.

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Census Bureau Recruits Florida’s Ethnic Media

MIAMI, Fla. – Within the Latino community, there’s no better place than a... more

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Latinas With Access to Internet More Politically Active

SAN FRANCISCO -- Latina voters with access to the Internet and new media are much more... more

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Help Wanted: Republican Programmers, No Experience Required

I know it's not nice to kick a website when it's down, but gop.com is such... more

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Republicans steal Barack Obama's internet campaigning tricks

Erik Telford remembers all too vividly the dark cloud hanging over him on 5 November 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected president. For the internet strategist at the rightwing campaign group Americans for Prosperity, election night was a double disaster. Not only had Obama won the votes, he had outwitted his Republican opponents in his use of new media tricks such as email recruiting and social networking.

"The left was far ahead of us. The efforts that Obama put into internet campaigning and what he accomplished were extraordinary," Telford says.

That cloud hung over the conservative movement for many weeks. A sense of crisis set in, he recalls, with bloggers, strategists and Republican politicians scrambling in different directions.

"There was a real lack of leadership, a lot of confusion."

But then, almost imperceptibly, something started to happen. Telford noticed Google groups popping up, listserves on which people would send angry emails back and forth. The anger was stimulated by Obama's $800bn stimulus package that was introduced five days into his presidency.

With very little leadership, the Google groups began to co-ordinate their response. People took on the onerous job of poring over the bill's hundreds of pages of small print in search of wasteful spending, following the Wikipedia model of crowd-sourcing.

They began to uncover items that looked suspicious or ridiculous: electric golf carts, snow machines, a crime museum in Las Vegas. They passed the examples on to mainstream media outlets, notably the new face of the right, snake-tongued Glenn Beck of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel, who used it as ammunition to attack the young administration. The anger grew. When Americans for Prosperity put up its own petition against the bill on its website, it had 500,000 signatures within days.

"It was a huge wake-up call to all of us," Telford says. "On the right, people had known new media was important but they were still hesitant about it. After the stimulus experience, no one was left in any doubt about its power."Erik Telford remembers all too vividly the dark cloud hanging over him on 5 November... more

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