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Jose Antonio Vargas: Egypt, the Age of Disruption and the "Me"-in-Media

2011-02-07T09:33:05Z

A few months and seemingly a lifetime ago -- before the Oscar bait "The Social Network" hit theaters, before Time declared the Facebook cofounder and ...

Read more: Egypt Protests, Jav on Tech, Egypt Technology, Egypt Media, Egypt, Mark Zuckerberg, Egypt Twitter, Egypt Facebook, Media Democratization, Me in Media, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Bearing Witness, A Tweet At A Time

2010-12-13T06:34:51Z

On Twitter, do you follow people on whose lives -- whose fundamental set of realities -- are completely different than your own? Or have you created a digital echo chamber, following people who already share your interests and already think the way you do?

Read more: Washington Post, Twitter, Jav on Tech, Facebook, Technology, Social Networking, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Mark Zuckerberg -- Our First Millennial CEO

2010-12-09T10:46:59Z

Like all influential and complex entrepreneurs, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is many things to many people. But he is, first and foremost, our young century's first Millennial CEO.

Read more: Steve Jobs, Facebook Connect, Jeff Bezos, 60 Minutes, The Social Network, Social Networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Privacy, Bill Gates, Facebook, Small Business America, Amazon, Jav on Tech, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Chris Hughes' Jumo: A Social Network for the Social Sector

2010-11-30T09:30:16Z

Jumo offers an unprecedented hub for non-profit groups and organizations and announces the arrival of a major player, and possibly a game changer, in an industry that in the past has struggled to innovate and collaborate.

Read more: Philanthropy, Jav on Tech, Tech-News, Mark Zuckerberg, Slideshow, Chris Hughes, Jumo, Barack Obama Internet Campaign, Facebook, Obama Campaign, Small Business America, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: The Social Disconnect -- How Hollywood Misread Facebook

2010-10-01T14:00:13Z

Whatever else The Social Network is, the film represents the biggest culmination yet of old media's disdain and misreading of new media. It's a movie about social networking born out of a fundamental disconnect.

Read more: Jesse Eisenberg, Jav on Tech, Twitter, Millenials, The Social Network, Social Networking, Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg, David Fincher, Justin Timberlake, Facebook, Digital Natives, Tyler Clementi, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: What's the Future of the Journalist in Our Digital Era? (VIDEOS)

2010-06-25T13:50:44Z

Exactly how has technology changed the journalist's role? This is a golden age for journalism, a time for experimentation, entrepreneurship and creativity. Individual journalists must take full advantage of it.

Read more: Knight News Challenge, Twitter, The Future of News, Jay Rosen, Jav on Tech, Citizen Journalism, Alberto Ibarguen, Youtube, Slideshow, Facebook, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: The Future of News: The "Me" in "Media"

2010-06-16T15:56:07Z

Technology plays a central role in how the media evolves. That's the underlying theme shared by the winners of the Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge, which this year awarded $2.74 million to 12 projects.

Read more: Future of Journalism, Knight News Challenge, The Future of News, Jav on Tech, Technology, Knight Foundation, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: WATCH: Not Everyone Has The iPad Spirit

2010-04-06T07:44:20Z

Judging from the hype that preceded its arrival -- the cover of Time magazine! and Newsweek! endless chatter from media folks looking for a Messiah to technophiles anxious to get their hands on the latest gadget -- you'd think everyone was clamoring for an iPad. Well, not quite.

Read more: Steve Jobs, Apple Ipad Review, Apple, Apple Ipad, Jav on Tech, Apple Store, Ipad, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: PdF 2010 LIVE BLOG: The State of Tech-Powered Politics

2010-06-03T07:48:31Z

Forget CPAC. Never mind the DLC. Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) serves as the quintessential hub of examining where politics is headed in our tech-centric, increasingly mobile, socially connected 21st century.

Read more: Ellen Miller, Craig Newmark, Sunlight Foundation, Jav on Tech, Andrew Rasiej, Slidepoll, Micah Sifry, Clay Shirky, Personal Democracy Forum, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Memo to Media -- iPad Won't Save News Industry

2010-04-03T16:05:09Z

We're living in a transition stage -- a very exciting time in which the "me" in "media" continually and more effectively flexes its muscles. The media's resurrection depends on its understanding of that reality. Not on the shiny, new iPad.

Read more: Steve Jobs, Stephen Colbert, Ipad Release, Newsweek, Apple Ipad, Apple, Jay Rosen, Jav on Tech, Time Magazine, Jeff Jarvis, New York Times, Washington Post, Pew-Internet--American-Life-Project, News Media, Ipad, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: The Social Web, Insurgent Candidates and Rallying the Base

2010-05-18T14:45:38Z

Does the social Web -- the blogging, tweeting, Facebooking Internet -- work better for insurgent candidates? The answer, of course, is not that simple. If it were, Ron Paul would be president by now.

Read more: Google, Scott Brown, Arlen Specter, Web Politics, John McCain, Blanche Lincoln, Twitter, Rand Paul, Trey Grayson, Ron Paul, Bill Halter, Hillary Clinton, Facebook, Barack Obama, Martha Coakley, Joe Sestak, Jav on Tech, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Chris Hughes's Act III -- Jumo.com, A Social Platform For Global Volunteerism

2010-03-18T06:26:28Z

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and the architect behind Obama's ground-breaking social networking platform, creates Jumo.com. Think of it as philanthropy, volunteerism and social networking all rolled up into one.

Read more: Mark Zuckerberg, Jav on Tech, Chris Hughes, Global Development, Facebook, Volunteering, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Happy 25th Birthday, dot.com!

2010-03-15T05:58:23Z

March 15 is the 25th birthday of the revolutionary dot.com. And as the celebratory site www.25yearsof.com points out: "1985's most lasting contribution turned out to be three letters and a punctuation mark."

Read more: Sunlight Foundation, Jav on Tech, Fcc, Julius Genachowski, Verisign, Telecommunications, Youtube, Twitter, Dot-Com, Facebook, President Clinton, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: The Online Fight to Define Elena Kagan (VIDEO)

2010-05-10T15:36:32Z

And so it begins -- the online war to define Elena Kagan, whom President Obama nominated early Monday to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Read more: Supreme Court, Jeff Sessions, Youtube, Senate Judiciary Committee, Barack Obama, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Supreme Court, Jav on Tech, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Internet's Future in America -- You Must Play A Role in Crafting It

2010-03-10T15:48:32Z

We all must play a role in developing the Internet's future. So record a video, go on CitizenTube, and upload a question to the the Federal Communication Commission.

Read more: Steve Grove, Youtube, National Broadband Plan, Jav on Tech, Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, Digital Divide, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: It's a Mac's, Mac's, Mac's World -- So Who Needs Macworld? (VIDEO)

2010-02-09T13:11:32Z

Who needs a yearly Macworld in San Francisco when, as the release of the iPad last month showed, we're living in bigger, non-stop Mac world? Through its Apple stores -- and, just as important, through its own web site -- Apple reaches and educates its customers.

Read more: Iphone, Steve Jobs, Ipod, Itunes, Apple, Jav on Tech, Apple Store, Macworld, Macworld Trade Show, Ipad, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: The Web Wants To Know: Where Are The 4,000 Missing Americans In Haiti?

2010-01-30T17:12:48Z

The Web is flat. Online, using social media, we've become each others' witnesses -- both in spreading the news of the Haitian earthquake and in responding to the tremendous need. And also in accounting for 4,000 Americans still missing.

Read more: Youtube, Social Media, Hillary Clinton, Internet Politics, Twitter, Haiti Earthquake, Jav on Tech, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Apple's Next Chapter (PHOTOS)

2010-01-27T08:43:48Z

No other electronics company -- no other technology company, really -- has dominated the past 10 years the way Apple has. Which, of course, explains the buzz surrounding Apple's latest creation.

Read more: Steve Jobs, Iphone, Slidepoll, Ipod, Apple, Jav on Tech, Apple Tablet Rumors, Islate, Apple Tablet, Itablet, Ipad Tablet, Ipad, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Steve Jobs and Apple iPad Tablet -- It's the Content, Stupid!

2010-01-27T14:44:44Z

Memo to news organizations and publishers who think the glossy, state-of-the-art Apple tablet is the answer to your prayers. Steve Jobs sent a clear message during the launch of the new iPad: It's the content, stupid!

Read more: Steve Jobs, The Tonight Show, Meet the Press, Jav on Tech, Apple Tablet Rumors, Apple Tablet, New York Times, Ipad Tablet, Leno Conan, Nbc, Ipad, Conan O'Brien, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Internet Freedom, Hillary Clinton and Being the Web's First Global Diplomat (VIDEO)

2010-01-21T14:52:29Z

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who can serve as the Web's first global diplomat, delivered the most important speech about Internet freedom given by a top U.S. official.

Read more: Google, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Internet, Twitter, Internet Politics, Jav on Tech, Social Networking, Iran Election, Internet Freedom, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, Technology, Facebook, China, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Haiti Rebuilds -- The Birth of Global Citizen 1.0

2010-01-19T16:51:00Z

Haiti suffers as we watch, and it will rebuild during our watch. And an emerging online-connected global citizenry -- us -- must be asked to remain engaged in the weeks, months and years ahead.

Read more: Bill Clinton, Social Media, Twitter, Haiti Earthquake, Jav on Tech, Haiti Relief Efforts, American Red Cross, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Youtube, Hillary Clinton, George Clooney, Facebook, Text Messaging, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Why Twitter is the Most Popular Word of 2009

2009-11-30T14:02:07Z

Of course Twitter is the most popular English word of 2009. In a world made smaller by the Internet and new technologies, Twitter forces us to become each other's witnesses, one tweet at a time.

Read more: Google, Obama China, Twitter, Hanging Chads Florida, Iran Election, Youtube, Hurricane Katrina, Iran, Barack Obama Online, Facebook, Barack Obama, Jav on Tech, Technology News, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Did Pacquiao Make Web History?

2009-11-15T05:26:34Z

Did Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao make Web history?

Read more: Manny Pacquiao, Twitter, Boxing, Jav on Tech, MGM Grand, Google Trends, Manny-Pacquiao-Miguel-Cotto, Combat Sports, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Obama Online -- Where Are the Young Supporters?

2009-10-23T06:25:00Z

They were ubiquitous, they were tech-savvy, they were vocal -- nearly a year after the election, where are the young Obama supporters?

Read more: Online Campaigning, Young Voters, 2008 Campaign, Facebook, Health Care, Barack Obama, Dnc, Obama Online, Jav on Tech, Technology News

Jose Antonio Vargas: Top Moments in Tech/Politics of the Decade (PHOTOS)

2009-12-29T10:17:27Z

Irrevocably, politics changed in the past 10 years because of technology in general and the Internet in particular. So here, in no particular order, are the decade's top moments in tech and politics.

Read more: Slidepoll, John McCain, Sunlight Foundation, Jav on Tech, Markos Moulitsas, Howard Dean, Chris Hughes, Barack Obama, George Allen and Macaca, Joe Trippi, Sarah Palin, Al Gore, Technology News