You’ve heard of hack-a-thons: people gathered to create tech that tackles a specific problem, from feeding the hungry to helping travelers to making people laugh.

A MediaThon is for people gathered to create media around a specific purpose or cause. For an afternoon, a day, or a weekend, we get together in small groups, both cooperating and competing to see what we can make, how far we can go, and what we can accomplish, while having fun.

MediaThon 3: Travel, Not Leisure

Let’s leave languishing at the beach to others. We envision jumping off mountains, zipping through alleyways, jetting off to help in disaster zones. You decide!

Join us May 31 to help create media — video, text, social media, APIs, guidebooks and more — about active vacations.

Prizes will include:

• Lunch w/David Kaufman, Travel Editor at the NYPost
• A free Day Pass to New Work City
• Select media books, courtesy of Teeming Media
• Free media books from O'Reilly Media
• Free pass to a future MediaThon

Come help create. Bring a friend or colleague, too. REGISTER HERE

Online-only submissions will not be accepted. To submit, you must attend the event on May 31.

• Meets Challenge
  Project stuck to the topic, met 2-min criteria.
• Broad Appeal
  Appeals to a broad community of metropolitan/cosmopolitan Americans or global citizens
• Clarity
  Clarity of Message - as a consumer, you understand it, get what they're saying
• Sharable/Viral
  Easily sharable through social media and potentially viral.
• Production Value
  Higher is better. Technically adept
• Met Their Objectives
  Did they meet the objectives that they defined for the project as a group.
• Did you like it?
  
• Propriety
  Allowable on Youtube, up to light "R" rating
• Complexity - Tie Breaker
  Does this have several components, intricate parts, profundity, provocativeness, etc.
• Wit, Humor - Tie Breaker
  Did it make you smile or laugh?