Michael Cervieri is a ScribeLabs co-founder and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. On Twitter, he’s @bmunch.
Archive for Michael Cervieri
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Syllabusing
ARTICLE: ScribeMedia’s Michael Cervieri begins a journey on creating a New Media Skills syllabus for classes he teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism. In this inaugural musing he stumbles upon a great video by cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch that struggles to understand what content actually is.
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The Living Brain – An Interview with Norman Doidge
AUDIO: Did you that your brain can grow new cells, reorganize its networks, and improve with time? This is not the immutable organ you learned about in high school biology class. The human brain is in fact a living, changing structure with immense potential for development.
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Lessons Learned: Crashing the Debate
ARTICLE: CNN holds their YouTube debate and their site crashes. Lessons learned? Beware your deployment strategies.
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Framework for Global E-Commerce – John Patrick
VIDEO: John Patrick, President of Attitude LLC and former Vice President of Internet Technology at IBM, claims that we only use 5% of the Internet’s potential in this talk from the Software and Information Industry Association’s gathering on the 10th Anniversary of the “Framework for Global Electronic Commerce” report issued by the Clinton Administration.
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The Magaziner Report: 10 Years On
VIDEO: Ten years ago, Bill Clinton’s chief Internet policy advisor Ira Magaziner set down to work on a document called the “Framework for Global Electronic Commerce.” Issues addressed included online payment, intellectual property protection, security, privacy, content control and standards development. Today, he discusses what was, what has been and where we might be headed.
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John Edwards at Cooper Union
Video: While the media focus on how much money what particular candidate has or hasn’t raised, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer interviews John Edwards about his two Americas critique where the gap between rich and poor becomes an ever expansive divide. Edwards is the first to appear at the Cooper Union’s debate series where all candidates have been invited to the discuss issues most important to them.
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Sex Sells… Like Obama Girl
Video & Article: Obama Girl and the BarelyPolitical.com returned to our studio last Friday to shoot their second video. We have some thoughts on the first though, as well as photos from “I Got a Crush on Obama” shoot.
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Weather Report – Social Media Goes Niche
Video: ScribeMedia.Org explores the use of Social Media in niche markets. In this case, how Shapeshifters is connecting cultural creatives and microbusinesses around the globe and, in the process, leveraging economic innovation and entrepreneurial risk-taking.
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Creating Virtual Worlds: User Generated Content in Second Life With Cory Ondrejka
Cory Ondrejka, Chief Technology Officer Linden Labs, discusses how the company created the massively interactive virtual world of Second Life, how it harnesses complex user generated content that he estimates would cost approximately half a billion dollars if they created it themselves, how commerce has become a driving engine within Second Life and how intellectual property rights entered the game.
The accompanying article begins: Things I never thought I’d say until I said them in Second Life: “Can I touch your Dalek?” and wanders through the ins and out of multi-user User generated content sites.
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The Wealth of Networks – With Yochai Benkler
Video: Yale’s Yochai Benkler discusses the politics, economics and legalities of commons based production in culture, information and knowledge, the central theme behind his book “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.” An accompanying article lays the groundwork for the compelling lecture given at a Freedom to Connect symposium in Washington, DC.
