Bivings report: increase in user-generated content on US media sites
This year’s Bivings report was released yesterday. It shows an increase in the number of US news sites offering their users to participate. From the...
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News Mixer – a great new tool for news discussion and fact-checking
The recently released test site for News Mixer is a tool for discussing news and posting your own. The focus is on Eastern Iowa –...
Pownce shutting down, becoming part of Six Apart
Microblogging/microstreaming service Pownce announced yesterday that they are closing down the service and becoming part of Six Apart. Leah Culver writes: We have some very...
Good use of microblogging in journalism – give us more examples!
Whether status updates on social media sites should count as microblogging or not, the walled garden that Facebook still is to a large extent, makes...
Are status updates on social media sites a form of microblogging?
Microblogging services like Jaiku or Twitter, which recently passed its 1 billionth tweet (via Media Culpa), are immensely popular, and some even say they’ll completely...
Jeff Jarvis on the future of news: Investigative journalism will survive
Speaking about the future of news, don’t miss Jeff Jarvis‘ long post on this topic over at BuzzMachine. Its focus is on local news but...
Dan Gillmor's new book – a guide for news consumers
Who can we trust in an age when anyone can be a journalist? How do we know? As citizen journalism has taken quite a bit...
Will there be a dark period for journalism?
Will we see the collapse of journalism as papers fail to take the step over from dead wood publishing? Or are we at a dawn...
Tomas and Kristin podcasting What's Next
If you’re a Swede and interested in what’s happening on the web and in new media, I’m sure you can’t have missed the podcast What’s...
SIME 2008 in pictures
Here’s our Flickr set for SIME 2008. It’s 125 photos, and they’re all licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial, so bloggers are welcome to use them....
Joi Ito: Don't sign bad licenses
Citizen Media Watch met with blogging veteran, super-entrepreneur and CEO of Creative Commons Joi Ito during the SIME conference in Stockholm. He told us about...
SIME preparations
This week it’s the yearly SIME (Scandinavian Interactive Media Event) conference here in Stockholm. Previous years I’ve found it remarkable that a conference about “digital...
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