Next Week: We Media Miami

My not-so-shameless plug: Next week, about 300 movers-and-shakers creating new forms and expressions of what we we call "We Media" will meet back in Miami at the University of Miami here in Coral Gables.

You can learn more about the conference of jump on to the blog at http://www.ifocos.org/we-media-miami-2008

The conference, which was supported last year by Knight, is conducted by the media think tank and futures lab iFOCOS. Eric Newton and Gary Kebbel will be there to talk about Knight's News Challenge projects.

More about "We Media": The movement started with a prescient report we wrote back in 2002 forecast how audiences would shape the future of news and information. You can download a copy of the original report at the authors' site, http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/weblog.php

There have been about 100,000 downloads in the past give years, including 30,000 in Spanish. the repor has also benn translated into Chinese.