(Here’s the update sent to our friends today via email. If you aren’t on the list you can use the form on the right rail of our new web site to sign up.) We’ve been on the move in Europe and the U.S. in recent weeks - and also hunkered down at We Media HQ working on a group of new projects. …
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Update from Andrew and Dale
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Chutzpah: Why Craig can’t save classifieds
http://ifocos.org/2008/07/17/chutzpah-why-craig-cant-save-classifieds/In an open letter to craigslist, Steve Outing asks its founders and operators to help save the newspaper industry from itself. My response: Steve, It takes real chutzpah to ask Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster of craigslist to help newspapers salvage their classifieds businesses and thus save democracy, or at least the part of it that newspapers presumably foster. …
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Amazing
http://ifocos.org/2008/07/03/amazing-2/Last night Mary and I attended an outdoor concert at the Wolf Trap Center for Performing Arts with friends. On a perfect summer night, we claimed a patch of grass on the hillside, uncorked a couple bottles of wine with a gourmet picnic dinner, and talked about the things that friends talk about as we awaited Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. …
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A tipping point
http://www.christiangrantham.com/2008/11/24/a-tipping-point/summer of 1862, he wrote a famous editorial entitled “The Prayer of Twenty Millions” demanding a more aggressive attack on the Confederacy and faster emancipation of the slaves. A month later he hailed Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Is blogging the new Tribune? In the national survey of adults, 72% said they were dissatisfied with the quality of American journalism today. A majority of conference–goers who were polled on the subject agreed – 55% said they were dissatisfied, and 61% said they believed
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Lou Ferrara, AP sports managing editor
http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com/2008/11/lou-ferrara-ap-sports-..."Lou Ferrara is the managing editor for sports,
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Friday: Notes from Web 2.0 Summit
http://www.susanmernit.com/blog/2008/11/friday-notes-from-we...CEO and MyBloglog flipper Scott Rafer demoed yesterday, when he spent the day lounging in the hall, holding meetings for free.) What this conference doesn't seem to have, which is less true at BlogHer, WeMedia and other smaller conferences, is a good way for attendees to connect. Although I have made plans to meet up with a number of people, I've also eyeballed a number of people--including some clearly entrepreneurial woman--and haven't found a natural way
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আর্জেন্টিনাঃ বুয়েনোস আইরেস এ অনুষ্ঠিত হলো “উই মিডিয়া ২০০৮”
http://bn.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/10/30/1360/অক্টোবর অনুষ্ঠিত এই সম্মেলনের আয়োজক শহর হয়েছিল আর্জেন্টিনার বুয়েনোস আইরেস। মিডিয়া বিশেষজ্ঞ আইফোকোস বাৎসরিক সম্মেলন মায়ামীতে আয়োজন করতো কিন্তু এ বছর ক্যারিন পত্রিকার সাথে মিলে আর্জেন্টিনায়
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Argentina: We Media 2008 in Buenos Aires
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/10/30/we-media-2008-bueno...iFOCOS has been organizing annual conferences in Miami, and together with the newspaper Clarín, the conference was brought to Argentina. Media executives, web entrepreneurs,and bloggers, among others gathered at the
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PsicoGeek - El Blog de Ismael Briasco
http://www.psicogeek.comEsto le debe estar sucediendo a Clarín ya que la realidad del mundo es otra, como por ejemplo que para el 2009 General Motors va a invertir el 50% de su presupuesto en online Luego Andrew Nachison, CEO de iFocos en una introducción a WeMedia hizo mucho incapié de que estamos al comienzo de un cambio histórico ya que la forma en que consumimos la información cambio radicalmente. También resalto el tema de
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2.oh!
http://2oh.blogspot.comEsta semana estuvimos acompañando el ciclo internacional de conferencias We Mediaque se realizó por primera vez en Buenos Aires. Ernesto van Peborgh, de El Viaje de Odiseo, compartió su exposición con Leo Piccioli, el CEO / blogger de Officenet y Juan Carlos Lucas, de Innova Consulting. Habló del
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Llega a la Argentina el foro internacional de tendencias en nuevas tecnologías
http://blog2puntocero.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/llega-a-la-ar...Daniel Fernández Canedo (Secretario de la Sección Economía de Clarín) y Alberto Quevedo (Sociólogo, especialista en medios, profesor e investigador de FLACSO y la UBA), entre otros. La oferta es amplia y variada. Dale Peskin y Andrew Nachison, de iFocos, abrirán la serie bajo un disparador que promete. “El poder de comunicar y de opinar ha pasado a manos de cada uno de nosotros”, plantean de antemano. Eduardo Hauser, CEO Dailyme.com, se va a preguntar:
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Llega a la Argentina el foro internacional de tendencias en nuevas tecnologías
http://insert-tec.blogspot.com/2008/10/llega-la-argentina-el...Daniel Fernández Canedo (Secretario de la Sección Economía de Clarín) y Alberto Quevedo (Sociólogo, especialista en medios, profesor e investigador de FLACSO y la UBA), entre otros. La oferta es amplia y variada. Dale Peskin y Andrew Nachison, de iFocos, abrirán la serie bajo un disparador que promete. "El poder de comunicar y de opinar ha pasado a manos de cada uno de nosotros", plantean de antemano. Eduardo Hauser, CEO Dailyme.com, se va a preguntar: "¿Cuál es el cambio de paradigma? ¿Qué se
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What newspapers can learn from baseball
http://wemedia.com/2008/10/02/what-newspapers-can-learn-from...Ordinary people see the difference between professional reporting and analysis and amateur hour - and they also see and reject the relentless arrogance of professionals who think so highly of themselves and so little of everyone else. Our research at iFOCOS has found two-thirds of Americans are unsatisfied with the quality of the journalism in their communities, but they haven’t yet turned to blogs as their first source for news. Traditional institutions remain the primary source for news and
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