For those unfamiliar, FORA.tv has been collecting and uploading big ideas on video from various conferences and think tanks from all around the world for about the last 5 years.  Recently, an interesting Picnic 2009 presentation was posted entitled “The Arab Social Web”, with participation from Creative Commons, Al Jazeera and Lebanese NGO Social Media [...]

Barely a week into the New Year, the future of newspapers discussion is still upon us. In fact, as I was writing this, a link to a Wall Street Journal Online’s listing of 200 “Best and Worst Jobs of 2010” – was being sent around Twitter via the accompanying tweet (courtesy of Slate):
‘Newspaper reporter’ is [...]

With 2009 coming to a close, end-of-year lists seem to be on everybody’s mind. So, like last year, below are some of the online “wows” I discovered over the last 12 months.  Limiting this list to nine was daunting, but here’s what I came up with … in no particular ranking:
1. Journalistics Blog – is [...]

Here’s some links from the last week or so that you may have missed and may be worth a look:

The longest solar eclipse of the century - some extraordinary images from Boston.com’s “The Big Picture”
China Launches Arabic TV Channel – BBC.co.uk reports on China’s launch of an Arabic-language television service for Middle East and North Africa viewers
Make [...]