Thanks to Crikey! (I did subscribe) re: Blogging the Terror Threat. Their link to RexBlog brought up this snippet: Yahoo News using Flickr today as a citizen journalist tool (and a how-to do it yourself):The front page of Yahoo! News is featuring a link to a slide show of photos related to today’s airport backups. It’s a nice use of a standard Flickr feature that can be used in such a breaking-news situation where lots of people are able to share photos from their individual vantage points. The ubiquity of cell phone cameras and the ability to post such photos Continue Reading…

 

Is it true that this is the most popular use of 3G video in the UK – BIG BROTHER ?????? For Vodafone UK, TV coverage to cricket and soccer and sports to Mobile phones apparently are no where near as popular as BB-cam. 24×7 of that rubbish? pass. Vodafone UK will stream the reality TV show Big Brother to its Live! portal 24 hours a day and — of course — live. The 24 hour mobile stream might rejuvenate the reality program, which many see (or hope) to be sliding into obscurity. However, since the video stream will be over Continue Reading…

 

Cool. Erietta (from Cyberworx) and I moseyed on down to Mintners to catch Mark Pesce (futurist), Jonathan Nicholas (Inspire), Mike Walsh (News Corp) and Jennifer Wilson (HWW).It was a great opportunity for me to understand where Australia is in the move towards participatory journalism and marketing. Mark Pesce is an interesting and dynamic speaker. After the presentation, I tried to give him a dollar for his hyperpeople bittorrent – I figured, what the hell, if there is no easy way to pay for articles and bytes on the ‘net, I’ll resort to real life transactions. But he gave it back Continue Reading…

 

This article is from Admanager in the Nederlands. Young people blog their way to a publishing revolution The extent of the personal publishing revolution has been revealed by a Guardian/ICM poll showing that a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website. Millions of young people who have grown up with the internet and mobile phones are no longer content with the one-way traffic of traditional media and are publishing and aggregating their own content, according to the exclusive survey of those aged between 14 and 21. A generation has grown up using the internet Continue Reading…

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