We're always on the lookout for talented contributors, new partnerships, fresh ideas, creative collaborations and innovative sponsorship programs. Contact us at hylton-at-corante-dot-com to discuss.
A pointer to the newest addition to our stable: the first of our regional insiders. Authored by longtime Corante editor Dominic Basulto, this new section reports daily and exhaustively on the latest news and developments in New York's tech industry. Tune in at http://www.corante.com/newyork/
which runs from Dec. 13-15 in Dubai: Former president Bill Clinton and Corante contributor Zack Lynch. The theme he's been invited to speak about: Tomorrow’s World, A Peek Into 2050. The topic: the emerging neurosociety about which he blogs about at Brain Waves. Big congrats to Zack!
More from our interview with Tim Wu, a UVA law professor on the front lines of those pushing for copyright reform. Says Tim: "copyright law should serve authors and consumers. But that turns out to be a radical view. Because if we took those ideals of copyright seriously, as opposed to paying them lip service, the law would look a lot different than it does today..." Go to the interview ›››
Marc recently visited Cuba, and over at Get Real he breaks a story about Cuba's huge educational investment in la Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, or UCI, a key part of Castro's plan to make Cuba a future high tech powerhouse.
We are launching a 20 Questions project, involving our extended network of bloggers, to whittle down to the core 20 issues in blogging, and a myriad of contrasting answers to them. Attendees will have access to the project, and will receive a book developed from the project.
After each seminar (26 Jan 2005 NYC is the first of 5 planned), we will support a 6 week virtual workshop, providing each attendee with on-going feedback on design, development, production, and other areas.
Following each seminar and its virtual workshop, the True Voice team will select a single participating company, organization/group, or individual to work with in a more strategic way. For example, we might select an individual blogger to become a Corante Contributor, or work for a day with a company on its internal blogging project, or help a non-profit launch an issue-oriented blog.
Be sure to catch the second interview in our ongoing series, sponsored by Orb Networks, on the future of digital media. Our first subject: Jeff Jarvis. And our second: Tim Wu, a professor at the University of Virginia and one of a number of leading academics who are advocating for an overhaul of existing laws and regulations to address the huge disruptions taking place in the media landscape.
Among Tim's comments: "Here we are, still in the midst of such an exciting moment in communications history, and the FCC spends its time policing commercials for 'Desperate Housewives'..."
Drop in on many of our blogs and you'll see a new feature we've developed that we hope proves useful to Corante contributor and reader alike. Dubbed "blinks", these help our contributors quickly note and point to articles/resources/websites that are of interest but don't necessarily merit much commentary. For examples see Get Real or IdeaFlow where you'll see Stowe and Renee already putting them to good use.
Useful? Let us know by following the "more" text below and commenting. (Other suggestions welcome as well).
This week we announce the addition of Alex Williams, the founder of DecisionCast, a producer of online events and programming and the creator and producer of RSS WinterFest and Outsourcing Conversations, to Corante as our new managing director of events.
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