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Posted by Chad Capellman at 02:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

One of the neat things about hanging out with all the cool people that flock to Media Center events is the moments during the breaks. While people are often talking about the latest industry trends and how their businesses could hook up, they are just as often showing off their latest gadgets to one another. Whether it's a Palm Treo 650 Smartphone, a BlackBerry 7100G, or (my personal new favorite) an Olympus WS-200S digital voice recorder the show-and-tell game in some ways resembles car fanatics bouncing the hydrolics and letting the neon glow while the hubcaps spin and the bass makes its own breeze.

After I received a magazine assignment to write about the latest business technology trends, I figured "Who better to ask than the Morph audience?"

So, tell us about your favorite gadget, and why you love it, or what's on your "must have" list and why.

Posted by Chad Capellman at 09:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Thanks everyone for your patience as we worked feverishly to capture, process, tag and upload and upload ... and upload nearly eight (8!!!) hours of audio from Wednesday's We Media conference. The following sessions are now ready for downloading!

Media Watching
Participants:
Jessica Coen, Editor, Gawker.com
Patrick Phillips, Founder & Editor, I Want Media
Jay Rosen, Founder, PRESSthink
Moderator: Ellen Kampinsky, Senior Editor, Glamour
To download the MP3 of the session, click here.

We Invest
To download the MP3 of the session, click here.
Audio begins during intro of Rick Ducey, Executive VP, BIA Financial
Other panelists are:
Brad Burnham, Partner, Union Square Ventures
Paul Ginocchio, Media Analyst, Deutsche Bank
Brad Feld, Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital
Moderator: Susan Mernit, Senior VP, 5ive

Culture, Politics & Buzz
Participants: Dominik von Jan, Director, NextNextBigThing
John Gerzema, Chief Insights Officer, Young and Rubicam Brands
Moderator: Farai Chideya, Editor & Founder, Pop and Politics
To download the MP3 of the session, click here.

We Marketing
Participants:
Fernando Espuelas, Chairman & CEO, Voy
John Bell, Senior Vice President & Creative Director, Ogilvy PR
Rich Skrenta, CEO & Founder, Topix.net
Henry Copeland, Founder, BlogAds
Moderator: Steve Rubel, Blogger, Micro Persuasion
To download the MP3 of the session, click here.

Activism & Democracy
Participants:
Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Columnist
Marcus Xiang, CEO, PDX.CN
Brian Reich, Director, Mindshare Interactive Campaigns
Seth Green, Executive Director, Americans for Informed Democracy
Moderator: Rebecca MacKinnon, Co-Founder, Global Voices
To download the MP3 of the session, click here.

In Us We Trust
Participants: Craig Newmark, Customer Service Rep & Founder, craigslist
Richard Edelman, President & CEO, Edelman PR
Watts Wacker, CEO, Futurist
Karen Stephenson, President, Netform
Moderator: Dale Peskin, Co-Director, The Media Center
To download the MP3 of the session, click here.

Tag: wemedia

Posted by Chad Capellman at 06:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (2)

Audio for this event will begin to be posted on the blog later today. The Feedburner feed for this is http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogs/wemedia05 ... back to the control room.

Posted by Chad Capellman at 09:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I was waiting for a friend in a restaurant and reading the print edition of The Onion last night. This made me laugh out loud, so I thought it might make one or two of you laugh as well...

Congress Abandons WikiConstitution September 28, 2005 | Issue 41•39

WASHINGTON, DC—Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. "The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of democratic participation," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said. "But when so-called 'contributors' began loading it down with profanity, pornography, ASCII art, and mandatory-assault-rifle-ownership amendments, we thought it might be best to cancel the project." Congress intends to restore the Constitution to its pre-Wiki format as soon as an unadulterated copy of the document can be found.

Posted by Chad Capellman at 10:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)