Monthly Archives: October 2005

Gada.Be Good

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

Chris Pirillo has released Gada.Be, a tagged metasearch, to public beta. In picking the domain name, Chris focused on mobile devices: gada.be is 4232.2233 on most cell phones. Time saving bonus: enter your search at the same time as the site URL. For example, politics.gada.be will search gada.be for all references to politics.

You can narrow your search universe to blogs or photos, for example, or go for the whole sheebang (there are 12 subjects). To save time (especially on cellphones), just add the filter to the initial string: delay.gada.be/b will search only the "blog" sources. But wait! There’s more. You can search with phrases or "and" — it all depends on your punctuation:

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BitTorrent Expands Daily Show Downloads

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

BitTorrent has expanded its The Daily Show with Jon Stewart clip library, based on this Wired interview, where Stewart and TDS executive producer shrug (If people want to take the show in various forms, I’d say go.) at online clip sharing. Wired writes:

Between blog links and BitTorrent downloads, hundreds of thousands of people watch clips online each day rather than on TV. In other words, in form if not in tone, Stewart’s Daily Show offers a glimpse of what all TV may one day become: something we can consume in many distillations, at a time, place, and device of our choosing.

In addition, TDS Executive Producer and Stewart offer their views on digital convergence. Excerpts from the interview:

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Young Brits Online Stats

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

About one-third of British youth aged 14-21 who are online at home have their own blog or website, according to The Guardian. This age group spends about eight hours a week online, with about half that time spent in online communities or IM; another hour is spent on e-mail. The poll suggests six in 10 have net access at home. They download an average of three ringtones per month for their cellphones and spend five hours a week on video game consoles. Tip to SmartMobs.

Examples of Citizen Journalism

Posted on by Kathy E. Gill

The Seattle PI details examples of citizen journalism shared at October’s We Media conference, held at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press. Examples included photo sharing, critiques of the newspaper itself, personal journalism. The concerns: accuracy, reputation and liability. Examples are OhMyNews (Korea – english version) and OurMedia.org (US). JD Lasica, who co-founded OurMedia.org, observed that these enterprises require rethinking "the entire traditional news process, and that’s hard for news organizations to do."