Peace prizes and social media-as-it-happens
Slight OT (off topic), but this may be a nice example amongst our group of "social media as it happens." I just wrote a blog post about President Obama's peace prize on the group blog I'm part of, Crooked Timber. I predict it will have 100 comments by the end of the day. Why? - it's in English and about American politics.
The international aspect I wrote about probably won't get much play. - it's highly current, i.e. about a topic everyone has an opinion on and is pretty excited about. - I won Timezone Bingo by being in Europe when the news was announced, and blogged about this just before the US east coast woke up, slurped its coffee and checked the blogs.
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Media Protection Tactics
This morning's panel discussed -- along with a need for new media investment models -- a significant need for greater support for legal defense programs that can support media organizations and network media lawyers to share protection tactics and strategies.
In my presentation I tried to highlight OSI's approach to this challenge, both through its Media Legal Defense Initiative (MLDI) and a supporting web resource www.mediapolicy.org.
Click below for more information about MLDI.
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The Omidyar Network: New Presence, New Ideas
Stephen King has been a familiar face at such gatherings as BBC World Service Trust, but today he made his debut as a donor. The Omidyar Network promises to tweak some conventions -- starting by foregoing an endowment and operating from the fortune of Pierre Omidyar, a founder of EBay.
The Network is concentrating on several fields, including access to capital and microfinance in emerging markets (especially India and southern Africa). King heads efforts on media markets and transparency.
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ERIC NEWTON: Question to the Audience
Are the current kinds of investors what we need for media development...or do we need a new kind of "media" investor?
Right now we have commercial investors, social investors, political investors and (if you count the Knight News Challenge) idea investors. Are these types getting the job done, do do we need to create a new "media investor"?
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SPEAKERS SAY: Newton, King, Vucinic, Chisholm
Eric NEWTON, vice president, Journalism, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: The Knight Foundation "has tried to position itself to deal with the future of news and information as it comes.... We used to be very much in a traditional mode of endowing chairs in journalism in universities and building up traditional institutions. We've moved to the other end of the spectrum and are now very active in digital media projects – concerned with how everything that happens in the world is covered and how everyone has access to everything. Everyone everywhere can be a news publisher – or at least an information publisher."
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