The Solow Paradox

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" On March 21, 2005, Germany's prestigious Ifo Institute at the University of Munich published a research report according to which "More technology at school can have a detrimental effect on education and...

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

Blogs, podcasts, and other new media outlets have changed the way people get their news. Immediate access to information presents new opportunities as well as challenges for science communication. Watch Carl Zimmer, science writer for the New York Times and host of...

NEW Beverly Hills Film, TV & New Media Festival launches in OCT

The <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Beverly Hills Film, TV, & New Media Festival is a celebration of the best of cinematic, television, and emerging technologies.  In its inaugural year the...

Can the iPad Save the News Industry?

Wired magazine says it has been waiting for the iPad 'for 15 years' With the official launch of the iPad over Easter weekend, a lot of consumers are asking themselves which cool apps to download first. Newspaper...

Print After Party: Jason Eppink Dances on Old Media's Ruins

Artist Jason Eppink has thrown an after-party for dead-tree media... in this case, tiny kinetic sculptures in abandoned newspaper boxes. I think it's rather life-affirming to throw the newspaper boxes an...

Victory for W2 Café

City Council today approved the W2 Social Enterprise Café on the ground level of the Woodwards redevelopment. This is a historic victory for W2 Community Media Arts Society who has been in a four year RFP...

Layoff 2009: An Ex-Yahoo's Survival Guide

Part One: Suddenly a Statistic So it's 2009 and you've just spent the past 15 years or so either working, going to school (partying), or pursuing your chosen profession. You were one of the most experienced guys in...

Greek papers left with egg on face over meeting that never was

The atmosphere between Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and Greek PM, Kostas Karamanlis was described as tense, somewhat "icy" according to Greek national daily, Vima. On the other hand, the Ethnos newspaper...

Vancouver Digital Week hosts 3rd Annual PopVox Awards

Vancouver is preparing itself for another invigorating week of Business to Business speed dating, an influx of game developers, Obama’s social media guru, and the gathering of digital media industry’s finest at this year’s Vancouver Digital Week 2009.  Taking place...

HuffPost Starts 'Investigative Fund' To Hire Journalists

Funny that it is new media saving journalists rather than the mainstream, all things considered. "NEW YORK — The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists,...

Jason Calacanis: "Newspapers deserve to die. Good riddance."

OMMA, oh my! A YouTube clip of Jason Calacanis "incendiary" keynote address  "Advertising, Riots, Twitter, Facebook and the Depression" at the OMMA Hollywood 2009 conference was posted Thursday in which the...

Citizen Journalism Website Triumphs at MediaGuardian Awards 2009

The 2009 Media Guardian Innovation Awards have awarded Demotix (www.demotix.com) a citizen-journalist newswire and photo agency the prize for best Independent Media at the ceremony which took place last night (the 24th). The MEGAs (as they are sometimes called), were...

Seattle P-I Newspaper to Close: "But the bloodline will live on"

While their Denver counterparts at the now defunct Rocky Mountain News try to drum up pledge support for an online version of their newspaper, staffers at the soon-to-be-extinct Seattle Post-Intelligencer are...

How To Create A World Wide Wave ... or Not

How do you get your ideas, stories, products or services to spread like wildfire over the web by millions of people? Are the huge success stories you hear about the viral power of the web just flukes - or can anyone do it? Interview and book review of a “WORLD WIDE...

Twitter boosts ratings for Sanchez on CNN

Rich Sanchez talks about his exerience with Twitter: ""I can't see how anyone who's forward thinking wouldn't look at our model...and say 'wow this is very likely the way things will move in the future,'" said...

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