Archive for the ‘Citizen journalism’ Category

The future of journalism is err… UGC?

Thursday, September 10th, 2009I deplore the term user generated content - it somehow brings to mind used condoms to me. I write this as because, what we call things is important as that language frames how we interpret the world around us.The Future ...

Networked economics comes to the music industry

Friday, August 7th, 2009Richard Wray writes,It has finally sunk in that there will not be one single replacement for the ongoing drop in "physical" music sales - in other words, the perpetual decline in CD buying. Instead, a host of new services will ...

Social media but an element of Engagement

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Tim Harrap, very kindly pointed me to lessons learn't in social media by Dirk Shaw, (Great name)Its good sound advice, common sense and obviously hard won. My view however is that Engagement as a principal co-joins social media with other ...

No Straight Lines – Why No Straight Lines

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009I work with the Think Tank Freedom Lab in Amsterdam, and I have had a fruitful relationship with The FreedomLab boys since 1995. This film is something they created from a two hour conversation about my next project, and what ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

A people will only be free when they control their own communications

Thursday, July 30th, 2009The Guardian writesIn the first of our Activate videos, Gerry Jackson, founder and director of SW Radio Africa, delivers a powerful and humbling presentation on the difficulties of providing independent information to a country stripped of its most fundamental freedoms. ...

Digital Britain loses the plot

Monday, July 27th, 2009Recently a conference took place to discuss Lord Carters report on Digital BritainA while ago I asked David Bollier who had worked with the Aspen Institute for 15 years to help draft a response to the Digital Britain report - ...

television channels are history

Monday, July 27th, 2009says Time Berners LeeThe man credited with creating the web says that television channels will be history and that the internet should be able to offer a random access library of anything that has ever been broadcast. Twenty years after ...

No Straight lines: an advanced living course for the networked society

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009My good friend Euan Semple was interviewed at guruonlineIn this exclusive interview, social media expert Euan Semple breaks social media down into easy to understand terms and explains not only why every business should at least have a look at ...

Communication technology; is political [Iran]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Following on from my post from yesterday highlighting Jamias Cascio's Video on why technology is political I picked this up from Boing Boing – Five technologies Iran is using to censor the webWhile the government's initial efforts to censor the ...

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