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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. I was a tech reporter. I was always thinking, how could a freelancer pitch the world? But I also think that it has some limitations.

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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