A recent article in the New York Times highlighted a really great organization called NYC Resisitor. It’s a group of tech hackers who have gotten together and created a workshop in downtown Brooklyn for all kinds of like-minded tinkerers to meet up,…

by: Ilya Vedrashko

There are bunch of lectures and reading lists for courses in comparative media studies uploaded onto MIT’s OpenCourseWare, including such gems as Sam Ford’s  American Soap Operas and Pro Wrestling.

While you are at it, take a look at the letter circulated by the department’s alums on the importance of media education:

Interesting news from the worlds of citizen journalism and open source learning – the Oakland Press has just announced that they will be opening a classroom for citizen journalists. The newspaper will train anyone who’s interested in news writing, v…

While conducting research for one of our client projects, we stumbled across an in depth??discussion on tinkering written by??Alex Soojung-Kim Pang following a conference entitled??”Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge: Production in the Digital Age” p…

Paying for college is expensive. GradeFund, a startup founded by a couple of brothers from Harvard and Princeton, has an interesting new approach to covering at least some of the costs: rewarding students monetarily for making good grades.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Media Laboratory in collaboration with several former Hollywood Executives opened the Center for Future Storytelling yesterday. Concerned that the traditional narrative in film – beginning, middle a…

Will Allen is a farmer and CEO of Growing Power, a community farm and food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Growing Powers mission is to help facilitate community run food systems. Locally, nationally and internationally, they teach people to grow f…