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PDF More on BBC’s use of mobile video phones
Those interested in the BBC video camphone efforts Howard mentioned below might want to check out this piece I posted on CyberJournalist.net a few months ago, reprinted from Ariel, the staff magazine and daily news online service of the BBC. In it, Andrew Harvey looks at this pioneering technology, discusses how BBC teams in Bristol and London are using video and sound from mobile phones on TV — and how the BBC is using the technology for undercover reporting. A brief excerpt: “The new technology is developing at an incredible...
read morePew Poll: Young adults lead shift to alternative political news sources
This AP story, reported in the Mercury News on January 12 claims that about one-fifth of young adults turn to the Internet as a top source of campaign news, and an equal number say they regularly learn about the campaign from television comedy shows like “The Daily Show” and “Saturday Night Live.”
read moreBBC distributes Videophones
Just as a little warmup, here is an item I flagged when I knew I would be attending this conference:
read moreCounting down to the conference
Count down is starting for the Mediamorphosis conference next week. I’ll be there, leading the blogging charge, on the soon to be launched conference blog, which is getting its QA checks right now. For the past six weeks, web business and marketing newsletters have carried ads like this one: LAST CHANCE: The Media Center’s MediaMorphosis. March 10-12, Newport Beach, CA. Focused on the intersection and future of media, technology and society. Look who’s coming: Qualcomm, Motorola, Intel, Salon.com, The BBC, Reed Elsevier,...
read moreAha!
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read moreSuccessful Conference Blogs
One of the things I’m thinking about is what makes a successful conference blog. There have been some clearly unsuccessful conference blogs in the past six months–but also some terrifically successful ones. Some of the qualities of a successful conference blog experience IMHO would include the following: –Real time coverage of the sessions, done in a coherent fashion –Links to slide presos, articles, relevant data –Post-session commentary and reflection, ideally by session participants, as well as by blogosphere...
read moreNew tools: Emerging markets
I had lunch today with a Silicon Valley social network/search engine/newsreader aggregator/blogging tools CEO. He talked about the idea that his business will be next-generation web and publishing tools. “No one in the blogging world–except for the people at SocialText, knows anything about publishing systems like Vignette,” he told me (no, he wasn’t from SocialText). What struck me is that so many of the entrepreneurs in these spaces want to see their core product plus web services–and they all want to do...
read moreWe Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information
This is the original report we published in 2004 (back when we called ourselves The Media Center). This seminal research report accurately forecast the rise of citizen journalism and sweeping changes that would soon rock thew industry – and the world. We are at the beginning of a Golden Age of journalism — but it is not journalism as we have known it. Media futurists have predicted that by 2021, “citizens will produce 50 percent of the news peer-to-peer.” However, mainstream news media have yet to meaningfully adopt or...
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