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When you’re bad, mediocre looks good: Dayton Daily news attempts at social

I had a talk with Ron Rollins last night at the Sideshow X. Ron’s an artist, and the editor of the “Opinion pages” of the Dayton Daily news. He assured me that the Dayton Daily news was not for sale. I think that decision is way above his paygrade, but, I’m glad he’s so sure. Read More

WHIOTV makes up news as they go along

This “story” that WHIOTV ran today, is a prime example of manufactured news. http://www.whiotv.com/videos/news/columbus-craigslist-laptop-thefts/vf2b8/ Unfortunately- I can’t embed it here, like I can the well produced and much more factual story run by the Columbus station that got the story first. This was a laptop that I found on Craigslist. I sent my employee- Matthew Read More

Social media changing urban resource use? The Usemore concept

Microsoft sponsored a contest to use their technologies for good- with a “brief” called “phizzpop.” As part of the SXSW conference in Austin, the challenge was how to make Austin more “green.” Given that Austin TX is already well on the way and very “green” already, this wasn’t an easy task. A friend of mine Read More