My Friday morning New Media Workshop class got a real treat this week when my friend Joi Ito came and spoke. As I mentioned in class, Joi was one of the people I met when I was working in Tokyo who influenced me to move away from my "mainstream" journalism career and to start taking the web's new opportunities serioiusly.
A lot of media innovation on the web has been coming from people like him, and not from news companies. Why is that? Watch and listen.
A few of the sites that he showed were: his blog, his company Neoteny, and Creative Commons. He showed several specific blog posts, including this one about a nuclear power whistleblower and this one about Chinese-Japanese dialogue.
Naturally Joi has posted a camphone photo from the class to Flickr. It's also worth noting that today Joi has a post speaking out against rampant racism in Japan, going where many Japanese journalists dare not tread.
Thanks to Du Ting for shooting the video!
This is the most inspiring talks on new media, the internet, the future of capitalism, and the nature of copyright I have ever seen. Do your students have any idea how lucky they are to see Joi Ito speak in person? This video should be mandatory viewing for every j-school grad in the country. Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting it!
Posted by: Christopher Mims | February 04, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Thanks for posting the video of Joi Ito.
Posted by: am | February 06, 2007 at 04:22 PM