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MIT Media Lab: Labcast #40 - Future of News

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In June of 2009, the Center for Future Civic Media’s “Future of News and Civic Media” conference showcased some of the work done as a part of the Knight News Challenge, focusing on creative ways to provide people with the news and information needed to manage their communities effectivel

It’s been a long term dream of mine to attend the Media Lab: who knows, someday I’ll even make it happen! In the meantime, I’m very grateful for views of the work that so many people are doing in new media, in the future of news and even more, how communities talk with each other, influence and inform each other.
I was love the picture of women in India with their video cameras…

Well worth watching if you need a burst of optimism.

h/t to one of my favorite podcasts, The Tipping Point.

“This is why you can’t give Black people technology!”

It’s great to see Baratunde Thurston, the host of the new TV show, Popular Science’s Future Of on the Science Channel (part of the Discovery Channel), at the opening party in New York City, and Bill Cammack, video pioneer and a guy whose posts make me laugh and blush at the same time.

It’s moments like these when I miss my hometown – and appreciate that new media crosses borders…

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