The toxic culture of the newsroom

Jay Rosen pointed me to a piece by Amy Gahran.  Is the newsroom its own worst enemy?"Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work....

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with Wiki

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with WikiWhat do you want in a presidential candidate?  Does the present slate of candidates lack all of your needs as a part of the electorate?  Well create your...

Army of Ohio attorneys battle foreclosures pro bono

"COLUMBUS -- Ohio's top government officials announced a new weapon for battling the state's foreclosure crisis on Tuesday and its army is comprised of at least 1,100 Ohio attorneys. The Save the Dream initiative,...

A MySpace for Schools

As usual, education administrators are finally seeing potential in a "newfangled" tech toy even as it begins to dip in coolness. A UK company has developed a social networking tool similar to MySpace and Facebook, and schools are slowly but surely adopting it. "Some schools...

New international collaborative website offers free access to future-related ...

Bristol, UK.  February 2007 – A new website where authors from around the world share their views about The Future has been launched, offering the possibility to readers to contribute an article on the subject...

Don't Shortchange the Value in Data

In the survey of more than 100 top corporate execs, 71 percent called the data in their company's information systems "potentially very valuable" -- and most of them said it would become even more valuable as a source of competitive advantage in the next year. Unfortunately,...

Wikia Launches OpenServing Blog Platform

"Wikia, the for-profit project from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, announced a project called OpenServing today. OpenServing is a community content platform that will provide free storage, bandwidth, software and computing power. What'€™s more, they'€™ll give site owners...

Leadership by Example - How to Play to Win in Your Career

" She's a real team player. He plays hardball. We're only in the second inning of the game. It's time to drive the ball over the goal line. Sports metaphors are common in business discussions. As General Electric's CEO Jeff Immelt said, in its recruiting GE looks favorably on...

Hotspot content by young Canadians

"Three organizations have joined forces to disseminate work made by young Canadian artists to a wider audience. The players are terminus1525, Ile Sans Fil, and Wireless Toronto. terminus1525 is a collaborative online studio where emerging artists can show their work, and find...

Too Many Chiefs Piss In The Broth.

"When it comes to collaborative art projects, the internet is kind of a mixed bag. Now with TheBroth, that bag gets a whole lot mixier."

Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

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