Lotta Holmström Blog

Newsrooms posing the wrong question? 0

Newsrooms posing the wrong question?

An interesting post by Steve Yelvington highlights some of the questions newsrooms are posing – and should be posing – today. In a discussion about, among other things, open and closed systems and journalism...

Business Week on vlogging and citizen journalism 0

Business Week on vlogging and citizen journalism

BusinessWeek.com has a long piece on “vlogging, citizen journalism, and other facets of the online video phenomenon”. Long live the net video revolution, the article writer Catherine Holahan exclaims. The article brings up vlogging...

"Hot or not" goes tv in Sweden 0

"Hot or not" goes tv in Sweden

TV400, a niche channel for Swedish TV4, will launch a new tv show where high school kids can vote on people’s looks. Much like hot or not, but in a tv version. The show,...

Mashup brings CNN news alerts to Twitter 0

Mashup brings CNN news alerts to Twitter

Rumors had it that CNN was experimenting with sending news alerts through Twitter. I thought that pretty cool, but of course it wasn’t the newschannel themselves, but rather an individual not associated with CNN...

"Throw the bums out" 0

"Throw the bums out"

Steve Yelvington: Here’s a New Year’s resolution every news site should make: Throw the bums out! There is no reason to allow a small number of bullies to corrupt a community discussion forum. If...