Archive for the ‘Citizen journalism’ Category

When push comes to pull: the new economy & culture of the networked society

Thursday, March 30th, 2006I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technologyWhich resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands.David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...

When push comes to pull: a new paradigm

Thursday, March 30th, 2006I have been reading the Aspen Institutes latest ouvre, entitled When push comes to pull. The new economy & culture of networking technologyWhich resonates deeply with Communities Dominate Brands.David Bollier the author states If the world seems a confusing ...

Commerce, Culture, Community, Connectivity

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006I was speaking at the MediaGuardian Changing Media Summit yesterday.One of the topics discussed was "finding new ways to connect with consumers in a collaborative world."Unfortunately, there was not enough time to really get stuck into the topic.Its interesting ...

Gooogle is passé and comment is free

Friday, March 24th, 2006Google is now in danger of being pass? - as a purely mechanical way of finding informationSays Alan Rushbridger Editor of the GuradianFurther And just to be "really terrifying", hundreds of sites are scraping the ads out ...

The digital holes in the digital cheese

Friday, March 17th, 2006Rupert Murdoch talked about being either a digital immigrant or a digital native and then went and bought the holes in the digital cheese - though he did not realise it.I was thinking about the how an industrialised ...

Come together as one

Saturday, March 11th, 2006Today only about 5% of global advertising is online, yet 20% of media is consumed online.And so nobody is as clever as everybody "Collaborative usage of the internet is rising," said Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, a free ...

Communities Contexulalize Brands

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006This review of our book - (always great that someone is reading us). Meant a great deal to Tomi and I, as its diamond drilling down into our theories was so well done.Rob Kleine at Digito Society says ...

Communication, Community, Communion

Saturday, March 4th, 2006A thought for the day, where does the word Communication come from? What is its etymology?Communication = Community = CommunionComing together for a common purpose.Sharing together and transcending together

46,000 citizen reporters can’t be wrong

Sunday, February 19th, 2006OhMyNews is now 46,000 citizen reporters. Founded on the premise that "every citizen is a reporter," OhmyNews is accredited for having a tremendous impact on the news production, distribution and consumption habits of citizens across the world. By promoting an ...

Pete Clifton, head of BBC News Interactive talking about citizen Journalism

Monday, February 13th, 2006Peter Clifton Head of the BBC News Interactive in conversation with conversation with Jemima KissThe wider internet community has an ethos of contribution and collaboration without financial incentive. Is it exploitative for commercial news organisations to publish the ...

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