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Thanks to Chris and Shayne for posting pics from Harvard on their site.

Also, we put together a composite video of interviews done during the symposium, and that's available on The Media Center's event page for the symposium.

Note if you previously had trouble getting the flash to play, we identified the bug that was preventing the video from playing on Macs and in Firefox. If you didn't have trouble before, please pretend you didn't read the last sentence. ;-)

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During The Media Center's Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good seminar, NetForm President Karen Stephenson talks about the transition period media is going through to and the similarities to other industries. She also talks about the joy she has bringing her anthropology background to her work as a professor working with design graduate students at Harvard University.

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Richard Sambrook, Director of the BBC World Service and Global News Division, talks about the BBC's multiple efforts to put storytelling and journalism tools into the hands of thousands of people around the world and the challenges that arise from enabling so many to tell their own stories. He spoke during The Media Center's Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good seminar.

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During The Media Center's Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good seminar, Co-Chair of Digital Promise and former NBC News president Larry Grossman talks about the Digital Opportunity Information Trust act (DOIT), a bill that is designed to provide funding for research and development for digitizitations to enable the public to benefit from advanced technologies. Their website is located at http://www.digitalpromise.org

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During The Media Center's Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good seminar, MediaChannel Executive Editor Danny Schechter talks about his film WMD: Weapons of Mass Distortion and some immediate steps mainstream media can take right now to help improve its situation.

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During The Media Center's Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good seminar, EPIC co-creator Matt Thompson talks about the feedback the piece has generated, how and why there is a forthcoming new version, and what intrigues him now.

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During The Media Center's Whose News? Media, Technology and the Common Good seminar, blogger and self-professed "Online Diva" Halley Suitt told the group, "it's not what the bloggers are doing, it's what the audience is doing that we should be focusing on." She elaborates on what those things are in this clip. (Video, Flash 7 required)

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David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto, speaks about his curiosity with the conversational nature of blogs and how big media responds to the changing reader-author relationship. (Video, Flash 7 required)

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