Will journalists start being judged and fired based on their Web stats? That was the question from Salon.com co-founder and author Scott Rosenberg today at a Personal Democracy Forum discussion between media critic and NYU professor Jay Rosen and Dan Froomkin, who was recently ousted as the Washington Post’s White House Watch Read More
Two years ago, at Davos, the annual summit of great technological and economic minds, a media scion of one of the most powerful journalistic voices in the world was demanding answers from Facebook’s co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
“He said, Mark, how do we get a community like you? Tell me how!” remembered Jeff Jarvis, the Read More
Earlier today, Vivek Kundra, the country’s first federal chief information officer, debuted a federal “IT dashboard” on USAspending.gov that gives citizens and officials easy access to the government’s technology spending, with project descriptions, status updates, evaluation reports and contact information for managers. Mr. Kundra, displaying the new site at Personal Democracy Forum at Jazz Read More
This morning, Danah Boyd was spitting out the social media Kool-Aid at Personal Democracy Forum. “Many of us believe that technologies can be these great equalizers,” said Ms. Boyd, a social media researcher for Microsoft and fellow of the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, during her keynote speech at the Jazz Read More
This morning Mayor Michael Bloomberg kicked off the Personal Democracy Forum—a conference about the intersection about technology and politics—by announcing a new annual competition that awards cash prizes to Web developers who come up with innovative Internet and mobile applications using city data.
Mr. Bloomberg also said he’d take the grand-prize winner out to Read More
Talk about revenge of the nerds! If President-elect Barack Obama actually fulfills his promises to bring the White House into the Web world, the techiest among us may have the loudest voices of all when it comes to influencing our government. Because let’s face it: It took a year to get used to Facebook. Read More
I’m at a Personal Democracy Forum conference about technology and politics right now at Jazz at Lincoln Center, where Ben, Ana Marie Cox and a few other folks were discussing the impact technology had on journalism and politics this year.
Ben got a hearty-ish laugh from the audience with a counter-intuitive analysis of this Read More
