February 2010
19 posts
“Newer information and communication technologies provide new settings and a...”
– Social Isolation and New Technology - Pew Research Center
“Ory Okolloh (24) doesn’t just use Google Maps to find a restaurant, she...”
– Josh Tetrick: Recession Kids
“These platforms are more than just ways to make money — they’re affecting the...”
– Washington Sends Delegation to Moscow, via Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com
cmAnswers: What is this 'medium of change'?
In our call today, we refined our description of the ‘medium of change’ to having 3 components:
The emerging system of social technologies…
that enables people to interact…
for a better future, sooner.
We also categorized the system as follows:
People (including individuals and related organizations)
Data (including static/current and dynamic/created)
...
“And that’s what we’re seeing about social networks. The same people assembled in...”
– TED 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat? | Epicenter | Wired.com
Join the chat! What is this Medium of Change?
Please join us Tuesday, February 23rd, at 11:30am to help answer… what is “the Medium of Change”.
We’re starting from the basis that it is the emerging ecosystem of social technologies. But what does that include? What doesn’t it?
We’ve started a google wave to capture our conversation and will host a 30 minute skype chat focus our conversation and come up...
“The Innovation Fair focuses around two critical challenges of development in...”
– Why the Innovation Fair on Conflict and Fragility Matters | Turning Ideas into Action
“Innovations in the way we think, interact, and structure our lives require just...”
– Why Bill Gates is wrong | Grist
“Living Stories try a different approach that plays to certain unique advantages...”
– Living Stories can reinvent the article - O’Reilly Radar
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cmAnswers - February 23rd, 11:30 EST
We’re kicking off a new conversation experiment about the medium of change. On February 23rd we’ll host a short 30 minute voice chat to discuss our most pressing questions about the medium of change. Our challenge though will be to come up with some sort of answer we can post by the end of each call.
What we’ll answer though, is up to you.
Some possible topics that come to...
“Conclusions. New media were not about escape but about creating local belonging....”
– Joho the Blog
“The latest report from the Kaiser Family Foundation which found that those ages...”
– Recommended reading, watching, listening | DMLcentral
“It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran...”
– apophenia » Blog Archive » Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on “Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America”
Study of Micro-blogging (ht @chrismessina) →
“2.0 technologies are already changing the way we are using the Web, the way we...”
– We All Need a Shift | Sonnez en cas d’absence (ht @juneholley)
“The Internet for Peace project was announced Friday during the Science for Peace...”
– Wired Backs Internet for Nobel Peace Prize | Underwire | Wired.com
“I’m tired of organizations asking “But what would our users *do*...”
– Twitter / Peter Flaschner: I’m tired of organizations …
