Michael Cervieri is an Emmy Award winning producer, co-Founder of the communication strategy collective ScribeLabs and Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.org.

He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. His teaching site is called TubesCodeContent.

More information about Michael can be found here.

General Musings, Most Likely Written Elsewhere

Aardvark and the Synaptic Web

A meta-web is forming that connects the bits and bytes of our online social actions in new and startling ways. The social search start-up Aardvark shows us how five years from now the 2010 Web will appear quaint.

Branding Nations Through Search Results

What does image search say about a country’s brand. From Colombia to Israel to Iran and Zimbabwe, the social web gives us a healthy dose of brand reality.

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  • EFF - The Weakest Link Redux
    This illustrates a basic problem built into the DMCA safe harbors. Microsoft’s notice targeted just one document. Network Solutions, however, couldn’t take down that single document, so opted to take down the entire site. Thus, although Cryptome's beef was with Microsoft, Cryptome also had to persuade Network Solutions to take a chance of losing safe ha […]
  • CPJ holds Cuba responsible for welfare of jailed journalists
    Cuba continues to be one of the worlds’s leading jailers of journalists—behind only Iran and China—with 22 independent journalists currently imprisoned. Twenty of these journalists were jailed during the March 2003 crackdown, known as the Black Spring. After perfunctory, closed-door trials, the journalists were handed prison sentences of up to 28 years in pr […]
  • Iran urged to release journalist jailed for political activism
    Amnesty International has called on the Iranian authorities to release a journalist and women's rights campaigner imprisoned for her political activism in the wake of last year's disputed presidential election. Hengameh Shahidi began serving a six-year sentence at Tehran's Evin Prison last week, after an appeal court ruling upheld her convicti […]
  • Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free
    Gadget nerds: Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness. PopSci, the web-wing of Popular Science magazine, has scanned its entire 137-year archive and put it online for you to read, absolutely free. The archive, made available in partnership with Google Books, even has the original period advertisements. You can’t go directly to an issue to browse, […]
  • Avoiding a Digital Dark Age » American Scientist
    Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, an increasing proportion of the information we create and use has been in the form of digital data. Many (most?) of us have given up writing messages on paper, instead adopting electronic formats, and have exchanged film-based photographic cameras for digital ones. Will those precious family photographs […]
  • Towards the Google Newsroom, a revolution for media | Owni.fr
    Thus, we have to forget that old idea of merging newsrooms. And make a choice: go where the information breathes, where readers/users are connected and involved. Create one newsroom “where everything happens,” that is to say on the web. This is the heart of information system. The rest is just appearance. […]