Topic: Media
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with NPR's Science Friday host, Ira Flatow. Flatow takes a look inside the studio, and while it seems so simple, you will be surprised to learn how many people it takes to put science live on the radio.
Rare is the day when you can do anything but stay in bed and avoid seeing any sort of published material. Whether it be a newspaper, novel, or nowadays a published item on the internet or computer, there is no way to avoid this crucial medium for conveying ideas. In this presentation at the Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, Sarah Milstein and Tim O'Reilly present the major achievements in publishing history from Sumerian clay tablets all the way to Wikipedia today.
In the digital world, where information can be spread easily, there is a counterforce attempting to lock it up. Shared culture, illustrated by the creative commons movement, continues to be fought against by traditional commercial culture. Gerd and Glen discuss these issues, assessing how things are likely to change in the future. They talk about how content owners have found ways to quickly filter internet content to assert their copyright rights and share examples about how companies are trying to find ways to be part of the sharing process.
As described on its website, Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. It is designed to help young people As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. Phil and Scott discuss Scratch, along with a number of other current technology topics.
On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Jon Udell chats with Michael Caulfield, one of the founders of BlueHampshire.com. In less than a year, BlueHampshire has gone from zero to sixty. Today it's the dominant progressive community-based political blog in New Hampshire, cited by national media (old and new) and respected by state and national politicians. Udell asks: how do you launch and run a successful state-level political blog?
Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard talk about the important megatrends that are shaping the future of media. They discuss a number of topics, including user generated content and media, globalization, access versus ownership, copyright versus usage right, the digital natives, the net generation and the aging of the baby boomers, the growth in wireless broadband and mobility, convergence, the decline of the hit culture, the rise of the ubiquity paradigm and much more.
The future is creatable and can be planned for. It has an effect on the present because it tells us what to get ready for and it can change how you think about tomorrow. Glen Hiemstra, founder and owner of Futurist.com and author of the book Turning the Future into Revenue, discusses the important concept of future planning. He talks about how to plan for the future and reviews both positive and negative examples of business future planning.
In his new book "The End of Control", Gerd Leonhard expands on the key topics introduced in his first book "The Future of Music" while escalating the debate out of the music realm and into media at large. He addresses the single most important issue underlying many debates about the future of media: who controls what, why, when, and where, and how can digital content still generate revenues when most of the traditional ways of controlling its flow ( i.e., distribution) are no longer available.
On this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with Mike Hudack, one of the founders of the video sharing service blip.tv. Mike had seen Udell's essay on walled gardens. They discussed blip.tv's current and future efforts to ensure that videos, as well as metadata about videos, flow freely on the web.
As director of web publishing for Nature Publishing Group, Timo Hannay is applying web 2.0 principles to the realm of science. His projects include: Connotea, a social bookmarking service for scientists; Nature Network, a social network for scientists; and Nature Precedings, a site where researchers can share and discuss work prior to publication.
