New report: Citizen media here to stay
The Institute for Interactive Journalism, J-Lab, has released a lenthy study on hyperlocal citizen media and its sustainability over time. In a news release, J-Lab...
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Kalle Warhol
I made an Andy Warhol style picture of K, and today I finally got around to framing it, along with some other photo enlargements and...
Collaborative novel writing at Penguin
David Kaplan at paidContent.org writes about a new site by Penguin publishing house: A Million Penguins. The site is a wiki where users can contribute...
A Jungian persona definition of "old media"
The other day I wrote about Howard Owens‘ attempts to come up with a term that defines the “new” in journalism. He arrived at “personal...
Personal journalism, the future of online reporting
Howard Owens, Director of Digital Publishing at Gatehouse Media, came up with a new term about a week ago – personal journalism. I’ve been meaning...
"20 million editors" became 400
Netzeitung, an online newspaper in Germany, started its citizen journalsim project “The Readers Edition” in June 2006. When announcing the project, they called out for...
Bye bye Beautiful South
One of the world’s greatest bands have ceased to be. The Beautiful South quoted “musical similarities” as the reason for splitting up. I’m so sad...
Revenue sharing at YouTube in a few months time
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley announced Saturday at the World Economic Forum that they will start sharing revenues for original work. We are getting an audience...
Stockholm Film Festival goes MySpace
As a way of reaching new groups and awakening their interest, Stockholm International Film Festival has created a MySpace account. On their MySpace page they...
Hyperlocal sites from UK's largest newspaper publisher
The Teesside Gazette has launched five hyper-local sites, under the name Your Gazette, based on postal codes in the Middlesborough area in the UK. Interestingly...
A walk in the snow
A beautiful, sunny day today, and a great opportunity to get some fresh air – god knows I needed it. So I took a walk...
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