Covering China through social media
I just spent an hour watching David Wertime of Tea Leaf Nation talk about China and how to cover it through social media. The speach,...
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Twingly offers microblog search
Twingly expands its search engine with a brand new microblog search tool. They’ve been working on it for six months and today it was released....
Citizen journalism's big impact in Korea
Interesting piece over at TechnoKimchi on the protests against president Lee Myung-Bak in Korea and how it all came about through citizen journalism: How did...
YouTube gets new citizen media channel – and beef over censorship
Going through old posts on Beta Alfa’s blog, I found a post about YouTube’s new Citizen Media channel, Citizen News. They’ve appointed a News Manager...
Why journalists should be monitoring and responding to reader comments
Excellent clip from WAN in Gothenburg, provided by Medievärlden. Pierre Haski of Rue89.com on how to take your readers seriously and get good quality comments...
Transparency – not for Canadian soldiers
The Canadian defence department has sent a memo to soldiers, urging them not to use social networking sites like Facebook, writes CBC News. The reason...
Hard times for bloggers and journalists in Sri Lanka
Living in Sweden, and especially taking an active part in covering and exploring social and citizen media, I take many things for granted. One is...
Per Mosseby: The mobile revolution is happening – but not here
Per Mosseby of Pixbox says at Hubbub 07 he thinks the developing countries is where the mobile revolution will truly happen. When mobile applications have...
Gillmor: Experiment more!
Dan Gillmor has put together a ten point report of the state of citizen media today. While both a general audience and traditional media now...
Danish media's move to web-first publishing
A year ago, Danish newspaper Politiken moved their newsdesk online. Now Berlingske Tidende is taking it one step further. ALL journalists are to work for...
Singapore – a small place with big online influence
Sriram Krishnan talked about media landscapes in Singapore. It was meant to be a joint presentation with his friend Justin Lee in Singapore, but that...
Law enforcement in virtual worlds
Interesting Washington Post piece on law enforcement in virtual worlds like Second Life or the game World of Warcraft. Two years ago, Japanese authorities arrested...
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