MBAs, Media & the Middle East.

Cognitive Surplus, Latent Groups and the Cosean Floor | a Clay Shirky *Book 6* Review

Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations | A Book Review.

Scoble interviews Fred. [Building43]

As you’d expect, Robert Scoble launched his new community Building43 with some serious web heavy-hitters. Zuckerburg, Marissa Mayer and Fred Wilson are some of the highlights.

Twitter in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. [The National]

I’m in National again!. Jen Gerson tweeted me for an article in The National on Twitter usage in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

AlJazeera’s Inside Story on Online Media.

Joi Ito was interviewed on AlJazeerah English recently alongside Lawrence Pintak of the AUC’s Kamal Adham Center and Global Voices’ Marwa Rakha.

Fred Wilson talks to MBAs.

Fred Wilson talks to NYU and Columbia MBA students about the VC industry for InSITE. Watch all 9 segments.

Abu Dhabi’s Media Ambitions.

Abu Dhabi is spending billions of dollars to transform itself into a global media hub. What will that mean for Dubai and Doha’s media ambitions?

Bill Grueskin welcomes the incoming Columbia J-School class.

Bill Grueskin, former deputy managing editor for news at The Wall Street Journal, where he oversaw the development of the Journal’s wsj.com welcomed the incoming Columbia J-School class as the newly appointed Academic Dean. He discusses RSS readers and the increasingly pull-environment of news intake, engagement in a digital world and signs off with a [...]

Wired at 15.

WIRED magazine’s founders interviewed to celebrate the 15th anniversary.
The magazine that changed my life. It introduced me to the possibilities of a networked world and was one of the major reasons I decided to study Electronic Engineering (specializing in Human Computer Interaction). It was where I first met McLuhan, Negroponte, Gibson and Sterling – all huge inspirations. It also sowed the seeds of my interest in media.

MTV Arabia.

Dana El Bataji writing for Arab Media & Society believes that: MTV Arabia “has not only translated a western medium to suit an Arab audience; it has also translated the western definition of what is and isn’t cool and made it pertinent to the region. That is, by all accounts, a laudable feat, especially given the cultural, social and political divides between the west and the Arab world.”

Wow. Really?

Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation.

I received an email from the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation on August 28 2008 (The Foundation is a really exciting initiative launched by the ruler of Dubai that runs a Fellowship Program offering scholarships for Arab MBA / MPP / MPA students).