This short talk by Kevin Kelly, executive editor at Wired magazine, at the Web 2.0 Summit looks at where the web came from and where it is going: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.746114&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Thanks to BoingBoing)

In this guest post, my friend Jason Tanz, senior editor at Wired, explains the reasons behind the magazine’s experiment in journalistic “radical transparency” around an article on Charlie Kaufman: Every journalist has probably had that feeling – you’ve got a pile of material, a recorder full of interviews, you’ve been studying and speaking with subjects who have been gracious enough to let you into their lives – and now you

The conference of the Online News Association climaxed on Friday night with the awards ceremony. USAToday was the overall winner for general excellence as the judges were impressed how it had moved to put its audience at “the centre of news, not just at the receiving end”. One of the most interesting aspects of the awards was how blogs won many of the 20 categories. Blogs won in: Online commentary

Wired has given its assessment of its Assignment Zero crowdsourcing project with NewAssignment.net. The project, which launched in January, has been closely followed by many interested in developing new models of professional-amateur journalism. The verdict by Wired contributing editor Jeff Howe is that Assignment Zero had proved more valuable as an experiment in discovering the pitfalls of crowdsourcing, rather than as an exercise in journalism. In the 12 weeks the