Posts under ‘Center for Citizen Media’

NY Times: TV Stations Fined Over CBS Show Deemed to Be Indecent. The Federal Communications Commission leveled a record $3.6 million fine yesterday against 111 television stations that broadcast an episode of “Without a Trace” in December 2004, with the agency saying the CBS show suggested that its teenage characters were participating in a sexual […]

PaidContent: Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site; Calacanis Heading It: The storied Netscape.com will be revived again by AOL, and will relaunch soon as a Digg-like user-driven news/aggregation site with Jason Calacanis at the helm, sources have told paidContent.org. This is a brilliant idea. For most people the name “Netscape” is still somewhat […]

UPDATE: THIS SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE IT. A graduate student from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government is conducting an intriguing survey about citizen media. In her own words: Blogs, Wikis, Flickr, RSS — the list keeps growing of technology and innovations that help people share their voices and knowledge. […]

I’m giving a talk and joining a discussion this evening at Worcester State College in Massachusetts. If you’re in the area, come on by…

I’ll be giving a talk, entitled The Democratization of Media, a week from today at the Journalism & Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong.

Anyone under illusions that Google isn’t aiming at Microsoft, though mostly from the side rather than directly into Microsoft’s strength, should note that the search and advertising company just bought Writely, a Web-based word processor that is one of the coolest apps around. It lets people edit together and see each others’ revisions in an […]

I’m in Buenos Aires for a talk tomorrow at a gathering sponsored by Clarin, the biggest media outfit in the region. The company just made big changes to its website, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. (Note: The company has paid for my trip.) Enjoyed a very long lunch today with some folks from the […]

I’m giving a talk next week at Harvard Law School entitled: “Engaging with the News, Part I: The Daily Me and We,” part of a series of talks this winter and spring. When: Tuesday, March 14, 7 pm Where: Pound 102, Harvard Law School Here’s the blurb the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is […]

This center is co-hosting a gathering this May called “Beyond Broadcast: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture,” to be held at Harvard Law School. Check out the conference wiki for more information.

Dave Winer: What is an unconference? First, you take the people who used to be the audience and give them a promotion. They’re now participants. Their job is to participate, not just to listen and at the end to ask questions. Then you ask everyone who was on stage to take a seat in what […]