studying the media ecosystem
Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere will become part of Backfence, giving the Virginia media startup a foothold in Silicon Valley. Gillmor, who wrote a book evangelizing citizen journalism, said among the reasons Bayosphere failed was an insufficiently local focus:
“Although our conversations (some might call them arguments) about Big Issues were interesting, they ultimately may not have served [...]
Spontaneous photos of the French employment riots show the power of Flickr to encourage what blogger Rebecca Blood calls“collaborative journalism.”
“Most of us can’t wait to “break” a story to our friends, whether we’ve just witnessed a car accident, a celebrity sighting, or discovered that friends who were dating have broken up.”
The down side to unlocking [...]
The Voice of San Diego, a citizen journalism site organized in a public-radio sponsorship format, is celebrating its first year. I blogged about the site last May.
A message from its community development director Denise Scatena reminded me to check it out again. Not much has been written about the site since the Online Journalism [...]
The difference between citizen journalism and user-generated content may strike some as semantic. But journalism aspires to more dedicated and disciplined coverage and requires more economic support than ad-hoc self-expression. Five essays by Poynter analyst-turned-entrepreneur Steve Outing provide hints about how citizen journalism will pay the bills.
Some of the business insights include:
– If you are [...]
Autos, technology and media brands have provided the greatest advertising support in the small but fast-growing market for user-generarted content. So says PQ Media in this brief summary of a report that says blog, podcast and RSS advertising pulled in about $20 million in 2005 on the way to a projected $50 million take this [...]
Internet legend says e-mail was an after thought. Designers built the network for file-sharing and email was the way to attach notes to transmissions. In February, digital guru Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs told the Italian Magazine Digital Life Style that teens discovered and popularized the SMS message function on cell phones.
“Keep in [...]
Over the next decade newspapers must evolve into newsgathering organizations that offer their primary distribution online according to analyst Ken Doctor with the information-industry market research firm Outsell.
You can request a complimentary copy of Outsel’s report, the Future of News, or read a synthesis of Doctor’s “prescriptions” in this MediaPost report. Doctor says paper circulation [...]
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