What follows is intended as a brief personal braindump from the four days I spent in Cambridge, Ma. last week, most of it deeply entrenched in the guts of #KNCMIT, a conference hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media featuring Knight News Challenge winners from 2007-2009, and the announcement of this year’s winners.
Tuesday [...]
All about MIT
Highlights from four days with my head in a blender full of wildly intelligent people
June 22, 2009
Upcoming proof of my physical existence: Boston and Pittsburgh
June 10, 2009
I’ll be showing up in person in at least two different places outside the lush springtime confines of Western New York over the next few weeks, believe it or not.
The rough details
Next week, I’ll be in Cambridge, Ma. at MIT for the Future of News and Civic Media Conference, including the announcements of the 2009 [...]
Cambridge, MA is full of really, really smart people, yes?
June 12, 2008
The Stata Center at MIT.
Highlights so far from the first evening and night at the Center for Future Civic Media:
As usual when I show up for these things, putting dozens of online “friends” into the friend-met category. People like Amy Gahran, JD Lasica, Ethan Zuckerman, Brian and Ryan from Rich Gordon’s teach-programmers-journalism project at Northwestern, [...]
Hello, Boston!
June 11, 2008
I’m at the MIT Center of Future Civic Media today and tomorrow meeting with fellow Knight News Challenge winners, Knight Foundation staff, and rock stars from the MIT media lab who are building all kinds of crazy stuff.
Seriously, there are lots of cool kids here, few of whom I’ve met in person before.
Say hello if [...]