The Knight Foundation is inviting entries to a $5 million competition to find innovative new ways to use online journalism to strengthen community life. The 21st Century News Challenge is subtitled “who will build community through new media?”. That’s exactly what we aim to do here, with the Grassroots Channel connecting active citizens, and Podminions …
Just add warts for a good story.
I just want to make reference to a couple of other bloggers. Steve Bridger has recently posted about the value of story telling for the voluntary sector and Ingrid Koehler responded on the IDeA blog. Their worlds overlap with mine through a shared interest in the NCVO ICT Foresight programme. I wont quote what they …
Charles Leadbeater wants help with We-think.
Richard Sambrook (Director of the BBC’s Global News Division – but also someone who blogs outside the BBC site) has alerted us to a interesting new appeal from Charles Leadbeater who has posted drafts of his new book We-think months before it’s publication is due. We-Think: the power of mass creativity is about what the …
The grumpy old men of web 2.0?
http://isolatr.com/ For more on the anti-social web try here.