Every big story that affects a community has brought complaints of press intrusion by reporters who descend on the place or use the phone searching for accounts and opinions. It has always been so and is again with the Virginia Tech killings.
Yet there is a difference: the internet. Not only are people blogging and putting [...]
Coverage of events like the Virginia Tech shootings, the London transport bombings and hurricane Katrina would not be complete without a rush to predict the end of news as we know.
Robin Hamman at his Cybersoc blog put it like this yesterday:
The past few days have pointed to a future where audiences are likely to look [...]
Roy Greenslade has been along to one of the staff meetings Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger is holding to talk about proposals to introduce 24/7 working at the paper.
It is a fascinating glimpse of the paper’s open culture and deserves to be read in full. The basis of the debate was laid down by Rusbridger who [...]
I have a fantasy that human communications had developed differently — the oral tradition had advanced early with telephones, radio and then video so strongly that no one had seen the need to invent writing.
Then the internet was created with all voice commands. It worked pretty well with voice messages and comments allowing a high [...]
It often seems that history began some time in the early 1990s. While the internet has given us unprecedented free access to information, it is not good for the facts and opinion that give us the longer perspective.
From the desktop, the 1980s seems like the dark ages. So it is disturbing that libraries are under [...]
The mobile phone video of the execution of Saddam Hussein is being treated as a defining moment in the development of citizen journalism. In the Independent on Sunday today, Tim Luckhurst writes that “for new-media enthusiasts, the fact that amateur film from a mobile telephone set the global news agenda shows citizen journalism has come [...]
This year there has been almost a frenzy as mainstream media websites bring on the latest technology with video, podcasts, more blogs with talk of social media, conversations and communities.
Could this rush be a mistake. Two items in yesterday’s Guardian suggest it might be. First on the business pages, Richard Wray reports that the Upload [...]
From today sending a picture to Yahoo News could lead to world wide distribution to mainstream media by Reuters. Stills and video can be submitted to You Witness pages at both Yahoo and the news agency.
Material will be uploaded to Flickr from where Yahoo will select material to be used in its news service [...]
Tom Foremski, at Silicon Valley Watcher, cuts to the heart of the issues facing mainstream media in a post where he says informative journalism, “is being torn apart–not by blogging–but by search engine marketing. Quite simply, it is more effective to sell products and services next to a search box than next to journalism. That’s [...]
Tim Adams of The Observer has spend a week in the virtual world of Second Life and finds it has “quickly acquired a powerful twist of designer corporate capitalism”.
Adams, or rather his avatar Kenny, finds land price inflation has hit Second Life when he tries to find somewhere better to live than his initial land [...]
