"Censorship is flattery"
I just read an interesting piece on free speech online by Ethan Zuckerman at My heart’s in Accra. He reasons that the fact that different...
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Eye witness accounts – a natural choice for newsdesks to embrace citizen media
Yahoo and Reuters are asking for photos and videoclips from eyewitnesses in a new joint project called You Witness. Reuters write: “There is already a...
Gregg Spiridellis: We’re in the silent film era of the online medium
In a new book about online video, Gregg Spiridellis of JibJab media is interviewed about the phenomenon of viral spread of video clips. If you...
BBC hosting blogging workshops in Manchester
The BBC will arrange a blogging workshop in Manchester, as a part of the Manchester Blogging project, an interesting approach in which the BBC simply...
US: Podcast listening up, but still marginal
A survey by Pew Internet & American Life Project (The report states: “The Pew Internet Project is a non-partisan, non-profit research center that examines the...
MSN survery: Male autority blogs most popular in India
A recent survey posed to 1000 Indian visitors to MSN’s portal has mapped Indian blog behaviours. Blogs founded by business leaders make for the most...
The element of surprise being filtered away
Calvin Tang, co-founder of Newsvine, a site where users can trail their reading habits and get filtered news which they then can discuss with other...
Magazines in Sweden far behind
Recently the Bivings group, a republican-supported PR firm with a somewhat bad reputation for applying unorthodox marketing methods, conducted an investigation into the state of...
"B-" for American newspapers online
Steve Outing at Editor & Publisher has reviewed American newspaper websites, and he’s not very satisfied with what he’s found. This is how he describes...
Library shuts down internet access
Detroit based wxyz.com has a story on a library in Mt. Clemens that has shut down internet access to its visitors since they used the...
Very young citizen media
Yesterday I published some great drawings by Swedish children to astronaut Christer Fuglesang. A simple way for established media to engage a young audience online,...
Oscar Swartz to set up citizen journalism wiki
Today free speech-activist Oscar Swartz writes that he is to set up a ”structure” for citizen journalism about free communication, immaterial rights and surveillance in...
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