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Key Articles of the Week...
Posted in IPTV, Citizen Journalism, Long Tail, Internet, News, Pro Am Journalism, Free on November 30th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
A flight across Europe for $10 is indistinguishable from magic
Is there really such a thing as a free lunch? Actually, there sometimes is. Craigslist really is free. Wikipedia really is free. Nobody is “monetizing your attention”. It’s all thanks to a combination of the falling technology costs of Moore’s Law with the Gift Economy.
Other times, there are strings attached. Advertising clutters your page. You’re pitched upgrades. Limits are imposed. You’re upsold to different products or locked into something very much not free. The difference is this latter category used to be the only category of free. Now it must compete with really free. And the newer category is growing fast.
MTV To Give South Park Episodes For Free
MTV Networks will make every episode of South Park available for free online next year. The important part of this news is the fact that MTV is not doing this to make you happy; they’re doing it to make money.
The Future of News(papers)...
Posted in Publishing, News, Pro Am Journalism, Hyperlocal Journalism on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The first stage is denial, the second is anger, the third is bargaining, the forth is depression, the fifth is acceptance…then you die. Steve Boriss of The Future of News reminds us of the 5 stages terminal patients go through as they accept their death, using this pattern to illustrate how newspaper’s are either dying of going through the same path as terminal ill patients do. (more…)
Google News: comments on the comments...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Internet, News, Pro Am Journalism on August 9th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Google wants to integrate comments from people and players related to each of the stories featured in Google News. This is another step into times of total information, and probably also necessary regarding the growing popularity of Citizen Journalism. (more…)
The state of Citizen Journalism...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Internet, News, Pro Am Journalism on July 20th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Citizen Journalism is growing. Now it is time to set standards and learn some lessons about this new way of reporting. But from whom? What can the traditional journalist add up to it, and what does it need to make Citizen Journalism a reliable source of information? (more…)
Links from Last Week...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Advertising, News, Pro Am Journalism on July 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
1 Creative Crowdwriting: The Open Book
Wired started republishing a selection of their Assignment Zero stories. Assignment Zero is a Pro-Am Journalism platform: a mix of professional journalists and members of the public: “Citizen Reporters”. This first selection of 12 stories are about “crowdsourcing” . (more…)