Today’s We Media Global conference is taking place at the very fancy Reuters Global headquarters at Canary Wharf. Yesterday we met at the BBC, at a different style of building altogether (someone actually compared it to a run down hospital). But both buildings shared something very obvious: these are news organisations. At Reuters, visitors are […]
The BBC website is a main news source for many people around the world. The site actively invited visitors to discuss items in the news, in the section Have your say. See also this page where the BBC asks visitors for their ideas, pictures and video files. I had a chat with moderator Sally Taft, […]
Future Forward is the name given to the small exhibition in the BBC studio where today’s Wemedia global sessions are being held. British Telecom mans a small stand, showing off the early results of a research project modestly called ‘New media for a new millennium‘ (NM2) . Future Forward is the name given to the […]
In the Ciziten Journalism Forum being held right now, the main question is: “What can we do to energise this army of citizen journalists out there?” A short BBC item first highlighted how many videos and images made by citizens are already part of mainstream news reporting. Tsunamis, bombings, floodings, accidents: there is little that […]
The WeMedia conference is about ‘a society connected by digital networks’ and most of the discussion revolves around the new relations between audiences and traditional media companies. So far little has been said about specific technology advances – we know about blogs, we do, but what else is out there? One of the companies showing […]