Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

Combining mobility, time and location is becoming one of the most valuable techniques of media creation. Last week, some students and I did a small experiment that demonstrates how easy this is to do, and suggests all kinds of possibilities for journalistic follow-ups...

Journalism will survive the death of its institutions.  David Cohn believes in this mantra and he’s doing something about it.  His project– spot.us – attempts to sustain journalism on the power of the public, the power of crowd funding. Many e...

Combining mobility, time and location is becoming one of the most valuable techniques of media creation. Last week, some students and I did a small experiment that demonstrates how easy this is to do, and suggests all kinds of possibilities for journalistic follow-ups...

Journalism will survive the death of its institutions.  David Cohn believes in this mantra and he’s doing something about it.  His project– spot.us – attempts to sustain journalism on the power of the public, the power of crowd funding. Many e...

Just noticed this morning while riding the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) they offer an API. Wow. Light Rail 2.0?

The Internet killed journalism.At least, as we know it.  Legacy media is on a serious decline.  It's hard to argue with the numbers. ...

Combining mobility, time and location is becoming one of the most valuable techniques of media creation. Last week, some students and I did a small experiment that demonstrates how easy this is to do, and suggests all kinds of possibilities for journalistic follow-ups...

Just noticed this morning while riding the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) they offer an API. Wow.Light Rail 2.0?

Moof.This is the sound a dogcow makes.  For those of us who don’t remember or aren’t old enough to remember, dogcow was a cult icon from Macworld, 1994.  It showcased the release of the 2.0 version of QuickTime.  But Apple actually built the dogcow demo in a program called director; a progra...

The online TV show Tekzilla - who reviews tech products and has conversations about everything geek - is here at Web 2.0 Expo, taping next week's episode.  Host Veronica Belmont spoke last night at the Ignite party, but today she interviewed Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.  He spoke about the f...

After picking up my registration packet, I dashed into a session on how the internet provides a space where local retailers can compete with large scale, national and global chains.Local is the new global.The panel consisted of company reps who attempt to connect local buyers and sellers.  Siva ...

The Web 2.0 Expo brings together some of the most innovative, successful, and entrepreneurial people and organizations in the heart of downtown San Francisco.I'm going to explore how new media entrepreneurship and specifically journalism can exist - and hopefully make money - in the current...

Apparently seeing success with their excruciatingly irritating VH1/Slide on-air Superpoke, Viacom announced that their other "music" network MTV will partner with confection company Cadbury and Dish Network to launch an interactive ad campaign cleverly dubbed iTV...

I'm still digging into it, but the Center for Social Media at American University released a report titled "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video." The committee behind the document seems to be a nice array of law and media academics and was funded by the Ford foundation.Examining...