Dan Gillmor – The Future of Journalism

Dan Gillmor visits the UNC school of Journalism and Mass Communication to talk about the deomcratization of media. People today have access to software and new media tools that previously were only available to large media organizations. He’s excited to see consumers as creators and collaborators in the new media environment and talks about what that means for the future of journalism.

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Bio:

Dan Gillmor is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The project aims to help students appreciate the startup culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services.

Dan is also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of ASI and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is author of “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People” (O’Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizens’ media and why it matters.

From 1994 until early 2005 Dan was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. During 2005 he worked on media projects at Grassroots Media Inc.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Gillmor received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.

For for info, visit the Center for Citizen Media

Bob Young – The connection between Ibiblio, Open Source, Lulu, and the number 42

Entrepreneurs can be found in all fields of human activity, not just business. The common characteristic of Entrepreneurs, and most humans for that matter, is they eventually get tired of just listening and throwing things at the television set, or the pompous Professor at the front of the room, or their software supplier, and instead decide one day to do something about it. This explains Paul Jones and Ibiblio, it explains Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds of the free-software-open-source-gnu-linux movement, and it explains Lulu. It also explains the number 42.

Bob Young: ibiblio, Open Source, and the Number 42 from ibiblio on Vimeo.

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Bio:

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, the premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 100,000 recently published titles and more than 2,500 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries.

Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young’s most recent endeavour. The success of this company has earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the “Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006” and was ranked as the fourth “Top Entrepreneur for 2006,” both by Silicon.com.

In 1993 Young co-founded Red Hat, the open source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat has evolved into a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft and Sun. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week’s “Top Entrepreneurs” in 1999.

Fred Stutzman: Do you REALLY know facebook?

Fred Stutzman: do you REALLY know facebook? from ibiblio on Vimeo.

Facebook, Myspace … whether you have 1,000 online “friends” or don’t quite understand the appeal, online social networking is impacting your world. What’s the inside story? “Do You REALLY Know Facebook?” is the first in a series of free Current Science Forums at MPSC. To open the forum, Fred shares some news about where these online tools are going.

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Bio:

Fred Stutzman is a visiting assistant professor at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, the co-founder of ClaimID.com and an expert quoted in Newsweek magazine’s September cover story on Facebook. He is also the founder of Eighty Percent Solutions, which distributes the productivity software Freedom and Anti-Social.