Tag: MIT
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2012 Civic Media Conference takeaways, open questions, reactions, notes
It’s been three years since I last made the trek to Cambridge for what we once called KNCMIT, and although the cast of characters has changed (with little-to-no representation of 2007-8-9 Knight News Challenge winners, different faces at the MIT Media Lab, and a rebooted Knight Foundation posse) the outcome was similar. All unhappy airport…
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Reuters covers ExtrAct
Reuters covers ExtrAct: MIT Web Tools Help Small Landowners Navigate Gas Leasing Frenzy. ExtrAct remains my favorite MIT Center for Future Civic Media project. Last time I saw the demo, there was (still) an amazing interactive map of natural gas wells, plus what amounted to a social rating system for “landmen,” the dudes who show up…
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Highlights from four days with my head in a blender full of wildly intelligent people
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.…
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Upcoming proof of my physical existence: Boston and Pittsburgh
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…
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The A Word: Information and Activism – MediaShift Idea Lab
Christopher Csikszentmihályi from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media talks about co-teaching a class on building mobile tools for social change. (The applications mentioned in this post are probably the most innovative work going on in the field today. If want to get a good solid idea of what the future of journalism and activism…
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Cambridge, MA is full of really, really smart people, yes?
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…
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Hello, Boston!
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…
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Ms. Doonesbury’s Lament or Why She Can’t Take Our Class – Henry Jenkins:
Wherein we live in a world in which an MIT prof can respond to a Doonesbury MIT plotline on his blog, then run a contest involving mashing up the strip. I like this world. Ms. Doonesbury’s Lament or Why She Can’t Take Our Class – Henry Jenkins: