Mashups as a journalistic – and political – tool: Tunisia example
The Tunisian Prison map is a great example of how you can use mashups as a base for journalism or political lobbying. Based on a...
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A look at Trig.com, and the possible fall of Lunarstorm
Swedish youth community site Lunarstorm is losing traffic (thanks Beta Alfa) – the number of visits are down since spring this year (though Lunarstorm denies...
The Lebanese ambulance attack and trust in citizen – and established – media
In August, a friend pointed me to the Red Cross Ambulance Incident fraud report at Zombietime. Today I read Ethan Zuckerman‘s recent post about the...
Polar Rose creating some buzz
Swedish photo/video face recognition search tool Polar Rose has got some attention in the States. Most recently on the front page of Red Herring, this...
Make your own "Digg" lists with Plexo
Plexo is a cool tool by Squidoo – a site where you can make personal recommendations and share knowledge on different subjects – that lets...
Multimedia on the new Digg
Digg, the much-imitated social media site, will widen its media field – apparently new updates are being installed this very minute – by adding podcasts...
Citizen media voices: It's US, not YOU
Following Time’s declaring of YOU as the Person of the Year, several voices in the citizen media world has been raised saying no, it’s not...
Time magazine: YOU are the person of the year
TIME magazine has a tradition of naming someone who has done something great the Person of the Year. This year, TIME magazine has declared that...
MyMissourian – lessons learnt from a hybrid project
Kevin Anderson reports from a panel on the reader revolution, and what Clyde Bentley of the University of Missouri School of Journalism had to say...
2006 named the year of the social network
It’s getting near the end of the year, and December is always a good time to look back and reflect on the goings on of...
Citizen media or citizen nonsense?
I decided to try out Twitter, a bit inspired by Jonas who talked about how fun it was to get people’s updates on what they...
Scoopt loves Flickr – and all its users' images
Today citizen media image bureau Scoopt wrote an open letter to all Flickr users. Here at Scoopt, we love Flickr. We love Flickr because Flickr...
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