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."
Monthly Archives: October 2005
The Web Challenges TV?
Forrester Research reports that video traffic is doubling on average every six to eight
months on web sites that offer sight, sound and motion, according to USA Today. Next month, AOL will take on E! with a celebrity series of “video-on-demand stories about Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and other stars.” AOL also has two original reality series: The Biz and Project Freshman.
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has moved two long-running shows — WWEHeat and WWEVelocity — from cable TV to wwe.com. Last month, due to Hurricane Katrina coverage, WWE moved Friday Night SmackDown to the web. They expected about 250,000 viewers; with no promotion, it pulled 500,000.
As a promotion, Google presented the pilot episode of UPN’s Everybody Hates Chris on its Google Video project. Former ABC programming chief Lloyd Braun is at Yahoo! and charged with developing original programming; the first effort is Kevin Sitesin the Hot Zone.
The credit for this development goes to high-speed internet access. As a result, Forrester is projecting that online advertising will double by 2010.
This could give new meaning to “hundreds of channels but nothing worth watching.”
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Philly Goes Wireless
Philadelphia plans to build the biggest municipal wireless Internet system in the country, joining a small but growing number of cities that are treating Web access like a basic municipal service such as water, electricity and trash collection. Earthlink will build and manage the 135-square-mile network. Taking a stab and narrowing the digital divide, Philly plans to offer the high-speed service for as little as $10 a month for low-income residents.
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Blog News
I just stumbled upon BlogRevolt, journalist David Kline’s blog, and his book, blog! how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business and culture.
Here’s the first book to combine in-depth interviews with the blogging
world’s most provocative and influential personalities with a realistic
analysis of the ways that this new media phenomenon is transforming our
society.
Kline provides some of the interviews online for download. A quick glance at the introduction suggests that there may not be anything "new" for those deeply involved in the blogosphere; however, those folks are a small minority.
