Todd Mundt

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Filmmaker Deborah Scranton (The War Tapes) collaborated with soldiers in Iraq, who filmed their service. She worked with them over the Internet, rather than going to Iraq herself so she could stay out of the story and not interfere directly in the soldiers’ storytelling. She spoke about working with the soldiers, winning their trust, and [...]

Christopher Lydon, moderator; Bill Buzenberg, Minnesota Public Radio; Terry Heaton, Donata Communications; David Liroff, WGBH
Bill Buzenberg spoke about Public Insight Journalism: “for every story, someone in our audience knows more than we do”, their use of “idea generators” like The Future of Small Towns. Those ideas become reports and series on-air, become comments online, become [...]

Keynote: Reinventing the Gatekeeper
James Boyle, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School
We’re bad at predicting the future of technology; we have to understand that and the policy implications of it.
The inability to see the potential of commons-based media: we are blind to the opportunities this kind of media offers at every [...]

I’ve spent some time digging around Gather.com and the Public Interactive Public Action beta and I’ve come away with somewhat more positive feelings about both.
I think the social networking aspect of these and other sites has less potential for public broadcasters - at least for now, while our main demographic is still late-GenX/Baby Boom. This [...]

via Haarsager: a pdf of the new book “The Wealth of Networks” by Yochai Benkler. In his post, Dennis quotes the Amazon “dust jacket:”
Social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice.
Thanks, Dennis!

BBC is spending 106 million pounds on an overhaul of its web operations - from Paid Content.
The money quote comes from Ashley Highfield, BBC’s director of new media and technology:
“We want to allow Internet users to go into their own BBC space containing all the content they’re interested in, all the TV shows they like [...]

Well, now I’ve said it. I’m not worried that God will smite me down; plenty of people don’t get it, which is partly why its life as a concept has been so troubled.
The concept is straightforward: social interaction has enlivened blogs and birthed chat and wikis; social annotation extends the concept of community, interaction and [...]