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  • Wallflowers of the uprising

    Frank Rich’s Wallflowers at the Revolution in this weekend’s New York Times resonates deeply.  It hits me both as an observer on the impact of social media platforms on such uprisings, as well as as former television news reporter in the Middle East. The live feed from Egypt is riveting. We can’t get enough of…

  • A new model for storytelling: transmedia

    Terrific insights on Media Space TV from transmedia storytelling (a.k.a. “multiplatform storytelling”) guru Brent Friedman, the importance of gaming, and how the Pacific Northwest has the right technological infrastructure to support this form of narrative. Also watch the Four Peaks salon that followed on net neutrality here.

  • Video wars, information warfare

    Call it my inability to abandon my breaking news background as a former TV journalist.  But I’m enamored with the notion of a “news peg” to galvanize attention around a particular issue. Our MCDM program did it with Wikileaks in December with “Open Secrets” and the news gods have smiled upon us again, ahead of…

  • Did social media propel the Tunisia uprising?

    From what I can tell so far, no — or it’s way too early to tell since January 14th, when Tunisia’s authoritarian leader fled the country in the face of a month of public protests [though see my update below]. I spent a lot of time reporting in the Middle East, but I haven’t been…