The New Media Sphere

About The WELL - www.well.com

The WELL is an online gathering place like no other -- remarkably uninhibited, intelligent, and iconoclastic. For more than seventeen years, it's been a literate watering hole for thinkers from all walks of life, be they artists, journalists, programmers, educators or activists. These WELL members return to The WELL, often daily, to engage in discussion, swap information, express their convictions and greet their friends in online forums known as WELL Conferences. About The WELL

rheingold's brainstorms: join community?

Brainstorms hosts a private webconferencing community for knowledgeable, civil, adult, fun conversation about technology, the future, life online, culture, society, family, history, books, health, home, mind, phun, money, spirituality, media, and academiaville. We are a few hundred people of all kinds from all over the world. To get in, either I invite you or email Grace, our friendly gatekeeper, and explain why you would be a valuable addition to the conversation: tarat at midsouth dot rr dot com rheingold's brainstorms: join community?

Diet Blog - Dieting and weight loss news and links

Welcome to the Diet Blog. This weblog will cover the latest advances in dietary science and weight loss, help to shed some light on the fiction behind today's fad diets, and everything in between. Diet Blog - Dieting and weight loss news and links

CULT2001

Old structural barriers have been transgressed on the cultural scene, due to the digital economy and the new media strategies. New creative models of collaboration emerge between institutions preserving cultural heritage, performing arts creating new expressions, and information technology providing tools of communication. CULT2001

Smart Mobs - Book Summary

Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive, used by some of its earliest adopters to support democracy and by others to coordinate terrorist attacks. The technologies that are beginning to make smart mobs possible are mobile communication devices and pervasive computing - inexpensive microprocessors embedded in everyday objects and environments. Already, governments have fallen, youth subcultures have blossomed from Asia to Scandinavia, new industries have been born and older industries have launched furious counterattacks.

howard rheingold's | the virtual community

Because we cannot see one another in cyberspace, gender, age, national origin, and physical appearance are not apparent unless a person wants to make such characteristics public. People whose physical handicaps make it difficult to form new friendships find that virtual communities treat them as they always wanted to be treated--as thinkers and transmitters of ideas and feeling beings, not carnal vessels with a certain appearance and way of walking and talking (or not walking and not talking). from The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold

howard rheingold's | the virtual community

Because of its potential influence on so many people's beliefs and perceptions, the future of the Net is connected to the future of community, democracy, education, science, and intellectual life--some of the human institutions people hold most dear, whether or not they know or care about the future of computer technology. The future of the Net has become too important to leave to specialists and special interests. As it influences the lives of a growing number of people, more and more citizens must contribute to the dialogue about the way public funds are applied to the development of the Net, and we must join our voices to the debate about the way it should be administered. We need a clear citizens' vision of the way the Net ought to grow, a firm idea of the kind of media environment we would like to see in the future. If we do not develop such a vision for ourselves, the future will be shaped for us by large commercial and political powerholders. From Howard Rheingold's "The Virtual Community

Canadian Search Engine Positioning - Elaunches.com

"We are a specialty practise with over 15 years marketing communications experience focused on brand creation and development," Wagg states. "In addition to strength in marketing and Internet strategy, Words Worth Communication Inc. is also an award-winning (Marketing 2000, Canada) creative agency. We are proud to offer our clients comprehensive, uncompromised, personalized service that extend well beyond our passion for the Internet. We are, first and foremost, marketing evangelists with the ability to leverage our insight regarding the critical marketing components the Internet offers. We are performance-driven, accountable and consumed by the opportunities offered through traditional and new media strategies. We are also search engine experts serving the Canadian marketplace."

The Pinsent Company Guide - The no.1 Information Source on UK Stockmarket Companies. Includes Brokers' Consensus Earnings Estimates

As all the bricks and mortar players refining online strategies as they pray for the package holiday-maker to move online, it is not surprising these new media strategies can vary considerably.

e-Government, e-Society and Jordan

The Web allows individuals to fight corporate power, and geopolitical information control, by utilising the ubiquity of communication on the Web. Until it was removed after that attacks on the U.S. in September 2001, the Taliban site (Justo, 2001) was intriguingly used by a technologically phobic government on the basis that it communicated their message directly to the world without being filtered by a hostile Western press.