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Will Journalists Be Fired For Low Web Stats?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:22:29 -0400

Will journalists start being judged and fired based on their Web stats? That was the question from Salon.com co-founder and author Scott Rosenberg today at a Personal Democracy Forum discussion between media critic and NYU professor Jay Rosen and Dan Froomkin, who was recently ousted as the Washington Post's White House Watch blogger. Mr. Rosenberg said traditional journalists distinguish themselves from bloggers because they don't chase after traffic numbers. Gawker's Nick Denton, for example,...

Jeff Jarvis: 'Give Government Permission to Fail'

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:15:22 -0400

Two years ago, at Davos, the annual summit of great technological and economic minds, a media scion of one of the most powerful journalistic voices in the world was demanding answers from Facebook's co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

"He said, Mark, how do we get a community like you? Tell me how!" remembered Jeff Jarvis, the "Web guru" and preacher of New Media gospel, who was speaking at Personal Democracy Forum yesterday. (Mr. Jarvis declined to name...

Vivek Kundra at PDF: Help Us Build the Future of Federal Technology

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:49:38 -0400

Earlier today, Vivek Kundra, the country's first federal chief information officer, debuted a federal "IT dashboard" on USAspending.gov that gives citizens and officials easy access to the government's technology spending, with project descriptions, status updates, evaluation reports and contact information for managers. Mr. Kundra, displaying the new site at Personal Democracy Forum at Jazz at Lincoln Center, called it the "golden source" of IT spending information.

"Now, for the first time, the entire country can...

At 'Hacking the City,' Tech Crowd Welcomes Big Apps, Questions How Far Bloomberg Will Go

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:36:02 -0400

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In the Battle Between Facebook and MySpace, A Digital 'White Flight'

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:53:38 -0400

This morning, Danah Boyd was spitting out the social media Kool-Aid at Personal Democracy Forum. "Many of us believe that technologies can be these great equalizers," said Ms. Boyd, a social media researcher for Microsoft and fellow of the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, during her keynote speech at the Jazz at Lincoln Center auditorium. "They can bring everybody on board, they can make a welcome, lovely place and that anybody...

At PdF, Bloomberg Announces 'Big Apps' Contest, Says He'll Dine With Winner

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:53:33 -0400

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