Brazilian student fined for online abuse on Orkut
This is a guest post by Gitta Wilén, Scriptwriter for interactive Media at Houdini web agency. A college student in Brazil has been condemned to...
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Verdens Gang: Online edition larger than the paper
More people now read the Norwegian daily Verdens Gang on the net than read the paper edition, according to TNS Gallup. – It’s a milestone,...
OhMyNews goes 2.0
Next month the ground-breaking South Korean citizen media site OhMyNews will relaunch as “OhMyNews 2.0”. The new site’s aspiration is to attract 100 000 volunteering...
Twittervision – see the world twitter
A lot of Twitter mashups have popped up lately. The latest that I’ve tried out is Twittervision, a live world view where twits show in...
Citizen journalists banned from video reporting of violence in France
In France, neither filming nor broadcasting violent content is allowed for anyone else than professional journalists. This is the result of a law that’s recently...
Brazil's no. 1 online newspaper – and its bloggers | Guest post by Birgitta Wilén
Birgitta Wilén visits Folha Online in São Paulo, finds out about how they work with blogs, and ends up eating and talking about great food....
Baiduer launches English language version of blog
Baiduer, a blog focused on immensely popular Chinese search engine Baidu, is now available in English. Since December, Baidu also has a blog search engine,...
"20 million editors" became 400
Netzeitung, an online newspaper in Germany, started its citizen journalsim project “The Readers Edition” in June 2006. When announcing the project, they called out for...
"Gatekeeping is over" – new wiki enables anonymous leaks
A new wiki is being set up by Chinese dissidents in collaboration with mathematicians and startup company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and...
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...
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...
20 million bloggers in China
The Chinese blogosphere is growing. A recent report states that there were 19.87 bloggers in China on Nov. 6, an increase by 24 percent in...
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