My good buddy Lisa Williams (founder of Placeblogger.com) found something very interesting today when she checked out @WSJ's Alan Murray's new Twitter list for The Future of Journalism : there are no women on this list. What gives, @WSJ? There are loads of women news innovators, who are creating the future of the news NOW, not just postulating about it. And it's not just Lisa, but Amy Gahran who also...
Oakland Local is a new non-profit community resource for news and information about Oakland, CA that was recently launched by Susan Mernit. Our site combines original investigative and feature reporting with community news and information about Oakland non-profit organizations, community groups and engaged citizens. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid, subscribe via RSS, Twitter, Facebook [...]...
I am excited about being on a panel at the Digital Media Contest West tomorrow from 11:20-12:05 --Breaking Down Social Media: Opportunities & Challenges for Content Owners, Brands & Marketers This panel of industry experts will discuss the future of social media, with a focus on consumer trends, marketing programs and content development. As a brand, marketer or content owner, how can social...
Oakland Local went live yesterday (well, about 16 hours ago). It was founded by Susan Mernit , who was an early advisor to my startup and a prominent tech blogger. Susan made her mark in technology and media as an executive during the early years of Netscape and AOL, and her recent position as a Senior Director at Yahoo!. Oakland Local has a New Voices grant from J-Lab, funded by The Knight Foundation,...
Hyperlocal sites are often run by earnest people who have just enough naivite about them to put in the hours and chase the dream, right? Former Yahoo and NJ.com exec Susan Mernit probably doesn’t qualify. But Mernit, a 10-year resident of the Bay Area, is nevertheless chasing the dream at Oakland Local,. The new hyperlocal site [...]
Going to ONA? Do you have a great idea? Are you a media entrepreneur? Love American Idol, Top Chef and all those competitive reality shows? Come pitch your idea at ONA to a panel of seasoned Silicon Valley venture capitalists and media entrepreneurs. 6 in 60 is a chance for 6 of the best and brightest to pitch their idea to our ONA panel: Christine Herron , VC at First Round Capital, Mary Hodder ,...
Spent Friday at Seizing the Moment, the sold-out, end-of-summer Garage/Summer Institute at San Francisco State University featuring a rich array of speakers who provided training in multimedia, new media, social media and more. I gave a 90-minute Social Media Bootcamp with Susan Mernit, and I’ll post the presentation on Monday. Above is Benjamin Jealous, president of [...]
Our new Arse Elektronika Anthology will be released in October/November 2009: "Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction" ... Pre-order via RE/Search . Taking up where the successful first part of our series left off, this anthology stands under the motto "future" -- and the ways in which the present sees...
First the two panels I'm on: Mom Blogging - Beyond Swag and Diaper Bags : This one is with PunditMom Beyond Tokenism: How Social Media Can Fix S** : This one is with Deanna Zandt , Rob Biko Baker and Cheryl Contee . Now some awesome proposals from my friends: Not the Silent Majority: Women in Politics Online: Proposed by Sarah Granger with Shireen Mitchell of the National Council of Women's Organizations,...
Currently I'm on vacation by Lake Leelanau in northern Michigan. This area offers considerable beauty and fun, but generally spotty cell and broadband access. That's a steep challenge for me and my friend Susan Mernit , who invited me on this trip. We're both online/mobile media junkies and newshounds. This trip has really hammered home how poorly most news sites handle the mobile Web -- and brought...
Both, however, are highly complementary projects to increase media fluency that will be able to build off each other in many ways. On Friday afternoon, I had the chance to connect with Susan Mernit of Many Hats, Inc. for the very first time and Cornelius Swart of the Portland Sentinel and Portland Media Lab. I’ve been [...]
Sex and drama have filled the social media world this week. Between prominent tech figures and investors spouting more crude images of women to make their points about website usability to a Harvard study that claims men have more of a following then women on Twitter, it’s been a whirlwind. And lets not forget the AOL debacle where senior management supposedly fired liberal blogger Tommy Christopher...
A friend once said online dating is like a full-time job with only occasional benefits. America’s 40 million online daters must answer questions, post pictures, run searches, write emails, and block bikini-clad spambait, usually across multiple sites. Susan Mernit , a former product director at Yahoo! Personals, reports the average online dater uses at least 3-4 dating sites. It’s exhausting...
On Wednesday I was in San Jose, Calif., for the Netsquared conference, a TechSoup initiative to "remix the Web for social change." Most of the attendees work for or with nonprofit organizations, but there's a lot of insight and information here of use to journalists and news organizations. You can check out the Twitter stream at #N2Y4 . I just live-tweeted a workshop session run by media...
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