Archive for the ‘Citizen journalism’ Category

The dream of the personal computer aka the world is mobile

Saturday, July 29th, 2006From the Economist July 29th.On the PC's 25th birthday, The Economist leader article says. The IBM PC helped to democratise computing. Now to finish the job.Merchants in Zambia use mobile phones for banking; farmers in Senegal use them to ...

Citizen Journalism and the new media ecology

Thursday, July 27th, 2006Mobile group in talks to create TV link for citizen journalistsCitizen journalism is poised to take a great leap into the mainstream media as the mobile phone network 3 pursues talks with ITN and Sky News about feeding clips ...

Blogging the war

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006An article today at the wall Street Journal online looks at what are described as Millbloggers or military bloggers[caption id="attachment_2745" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Blogs of War"][/caption]Cry Bias, and Let Slip the Blogs of WarJ.P. Borda started a Web ...

What is the future for newspapers?

Thursday, July 13th, 2006Asks Victor Keegan in Can a crowd really edit our daily paper?One of the most fascinating questions is what, if any, future there is for newspapers as the creative destruction of the internet gathers pace. What is ...

Transparency vs. opacity – hot media vs. cold media

Saturday, July 8th, 2006Student blog devoted to G8 summit A group of University of Toronto students will be using blogs to report on this year's G8 summitAs they have in past years, students from U of T's G8 Research Group will ...

The social life of news

Monday, June 19th, 2006Jeff Jarvis writes in the Guardian today It takes guts to hand your crown jewels to the futureThe news story may never be the same. A week ago, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger made quite a stir when he ...

Alan and Shel on the BBC

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Last week I was a keynote speaker along with Shel Israel of Naked conversations, at the NMK marketing 2.0 - content 2.0 conference.Shel and I - had a head to head conversation about Trust, Communications, and Marketing.It was ...

mobile myspace, and the relationship between brands and communities

Friday, June 2nd, 2006So here's a surprise the action on the MySpace music channel outpaces the other online music venues. According to Jupiter Research, the rambunctious and infectious community action on MySpace Music exceeds Yahoo Music, AOL Music, and MTV.com. In fact, ...

Paradigm shift

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006I have been thinking about the issues surrounding commons based peer-to-peer flows of communication. Something that I blogged about last year within the context of JD Lasica's book Darknet: Hollywoods war on the digital generation And ...

The erosion of trust in a post modern world

Friday, March 31st, 2006The economic survey is undertaking tracking research on trust via the World Economic ForumFull Survey: Trust in Governments, Corporations and Global Institutions Continues to DeclineSince signaling the importance of trust in world affairs, the World Economic Forum has been ...

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