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  • If you’re doing exceptional work

    I’m presently listening to Brian Storm, my former MSNBC colleague and now multimedia storytelling visionary through his NYC-based production company, Media Storm.  We’re both presenting at the Visual Journalism Bootcamp on Whidbey Island in Washington. He does powerful work — we just watched an excerpt from Unintended Consequences — the children born of rape after…

  • Influence and persuasion in a YouTube world

    A call today from a local TV talk show producer looking to book me as a tech “expert”, alerted me to YouTube’s 5th birthday today (here’s my segment).  I wish I had known about the video streaming site’s public beta test back in May 2005 — at that same time, I was struggling to compress,…

  • The power of story and technology

    My TEDx Seattle introduction, as I lay the framework for “Convening Community Through Social Technologies: From Puget Sound to Cape Town.”

  • Good News for News?

    Every time that I step into a newsroom, I remember what it was like to live off of the electricity in the air.  It was the human buzz of stressful inquiry as events incessantly unfolded before our journalistic eyes. We’ve come to believe that this buzz is much diminished in the waning days of traditional…