japanese toilets
I followed an inbound link back to Lee Lefever’s Common Craft site this morning and found myself revisiting the travel blog he set up with his wife Sachi. The World is Not Flat is a really fun read – take,… Continue Reading
Month: May 2006
video sites and the “democratisation of media”
Why is it that everytime there’s an article about video sharing site (eg. youtube), someone words drops “democratisation of media”: From the get-go we’ve been big believers in the democratisation of original user-created content”, says Keith Richman from video site… Continue Reading
scooptwords – a bit of info slips out
A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that Scoopt appeared to be positioning itself for some sort of citizen journalism project. Ok, so I had a tip off about it weeks ago and was sworn to secrecy, but now that… Continue Reading
neighborhood america – i still don’t know what they do
I was cleaning out my laptop bag this evening and came across some information from the wemedia delegate pack about Neighborhood America – and, indeed, I actually encountered a cluster of neighborhood americans in suits at the event itself. So… Continue Reading
some citizen journalism links
Browsing through unmediated (a site that builds on the idea of eyebeam’s reblog), I came across links to a new section on "Citizen Journalism: Theory and Practise" at OhMyNews and John Gorenfeld’s post on Alternet where he discusses digg and… Continue Reading
citizen media, brought to you by technorati (and blogburst…)
Technorati has announced a new partnership with the Associated Press which they say will “connect bloggers to more than 440 newspapers nationwide” in America. “The new service will bring blogger commentary about AP news stories to communities large and small… Continue Reading
a day out with the arts and humanities research council
On Thursday I’m going to an away day at the Tate Modern that has been organised by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the BBC to get academics and media practicioners working together. I had a look at the… Continue Reading
mysterious google ad
Imagine my surprise at discovering the following google ad in which ebay is apparently offering “New & used Hamman”:
research links: blogging and citizen journalism
I keep getting wheeled out in front of various audiences to talk about blogging so I figured it was about time I did a bit of digging around to see what academics are saying about it. Here are the gems… Continue Reading
wemedia fringe – the stats
We media fringe event Originally uploaded by cubicgarden. It’s been a few weeks and I forgot (which is somewhat typical of me) to pass on the stats for the wemedia fringe. * We had 150 on the guest list and… Continue Reading