Knight Commission member danah boyd posted to Twitter from the Chicago Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy meeting:
You can watch the live webcast by clicking the top link on today’s Commission agenda page.
Do you have thoughts to share with the Commission? Leave a comment below or Twitter @knightfdn.
As of now, there are nineteen days left to apply for the Knight News Challenge, the yearly $5MM contest to find innovative ideas about delivering information to specific geographic communities.
To find out more about how to apply and win funding for your idea, join me, Kristen Taylor, this Thursday at one of two meetups in Austin:
This Thursday, 3:30pm at the University of Texas at Austin (Burson Conference Room at the College of Communication building–Room 4.128 in the CMA Building) Map
This Thursday, 7-8pm at Pluck (200 Academy Drive, plenty of parking) Map
Here’s the Facebook invite and the Upcoming invite.
I’ll also be at the Austin Maker Faire on Saturday and Sunday (details).
Any questions, please let us know in the comments below. And if you would like to work through your idea before you apply, please go to the News Challenge Garage and request a mentor (remember that you still need to apply through the main News Challenge site here).
Thanks to the News Challenge winner Lisa Williams of Placeblogger and the Berkman Blog Group for a great Boston meetup last night where we talked about the history of the News Challenge (the $5MM yearly contest to find innovative digital delivery ideas), the Garage site for working through ideas before applying, how mentoring in the Garage works, and brainstorming ideas for this year’s contest.
You’ll see Steve Garfield and Jason Pramas (Open Media Boston) in the group below as well as developers and thinkers from MIT, Harvard, and Somerville organizations.
Next Thursday, we’ll host meetups in Austin and we’ll also be at the Maker Faire during the weekend. After that, we’ll talk in San Francisco (Facebook invite). We hope to meet you then–
Remember that the News Challenge contest closes November 1st; you can apply here and work through your idea before applying here with a mentor who has won the contest in the past.
Until 5 PST today, you can watch the live webcast of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy from Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. Videos from yesterday’s Knight Commission Community Forum are on Flickr here.
If you’re in the NYC area this evening, there is an informational event tonight from 7 - 9pm at CUNY Journalism School, Room 308, about the $5 million this year in the News Challenge, a yearly contest about innovative digital news delivery. The Facebook invite has more details. Future News Challenge events will be listed on this blog soon.
Questions? Thoughts? Let us know in the comments–
Until 5 PST this afternoon, you can watch the live webcast of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Community Forum at Google.
Archived video will live on the Knight Commission site, and smaller clips are in a Flickr set and below, some highlights from the media panel that just finished a few minutes ago:
Linda O’Bryon, Chief Content Officer, KQED Public Television talks about QUEST content collaboration:
Knight Commissioner Andrew Mooney asked about journalism business models:
And Jim Bettinger, director of the Knight Stanford Fellows answered:
Knight Commissioner Michael K. Powell brought up “information snacking”:
And Raj Jayadev, Founder, Silicon Valley De-Bug talked about the internet as a gateway:
Posts on the speakers are on the new Knight Commission blog.
What do you think about journalism business models and information snacking based on the videos above?
Knight Commissioner danah boyd asked the distinguished guests of first community forum panel at the Knight Commission meeting at Google about push/pull strategies:
How do you think push/pull works in local news and information dissemination?
Today is the Knight Commission Community Forum at Google, the third meeting of the Knight Commission, a group of “luminaries assembled to recommend both public and private measures that would help American communities better meet their information needs.”
The day is just beginning here:
To follow along, the discussion is being webcast live here and the proceedings are being blogged by Kristie Wells of Social Media Club and Josh Wilson.
The Knight Twitter account will also have updates throughout the day; ask questions in the comments below and on Twitter.
Watch the video below to find out why former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is wearing a spider pin at the Knight-sponsored Forum on Communication and Society at the Aspen Institute today.
Madeleine Albright on her spider pin - and the Web from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
Knight Commission member danah boyd speaks on e-literacy at the Forum on Communication and Society at the Aspen Institute:
danah boyd on e-literacy from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
This conference, sponsored by Knight, brings together some of the brightest minds in media. Below is a partial list of attendees.
The Paris Hilton video response to the McCain ad definitely got everyone’s attention here and has been discussed as one example for the changed nature of media in the 2008 election. I’m posting more detailed conference notes (in a stream-of-consciousness style too lengthy for this blog) at www.mytribune.com.
Here’s a video of co-chairs Marissa Meyer and Ted Olson speaking about the goals of the Knight Commission on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Mayer is vice president of search and user experience at Google. Olson is a former Solicitor General of the United States and a first amendment lawyer.
Marissa Mayer and Ted Olson on goals of Knight Commission from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.
What would you like to see the Knight Commission accomplish? Please leave a comment below.
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