Digging Deeper
Reuters Looks to Africa and a Decentralized Future for Media
The 155-year-old Reuters wire service has been reinventing itself for the modern age of decentralized journalism, where millions of people have the tools to capture the news around them. Reuters has made alliances and investments in blog aggregators Global Voices and Pluck, and with Yahoo for the citizen-submitted news...continued...
Digging Deeper
AP Warms Up to Blogs, Citizen Media at NowPublic
There’s something bland and homogeneous about an Associated Press wire story. Just the facts, ma’am, in classic inverted pyramid style. The satirical newspaper The Onion has made a mint mocking the news wire style, and the blogosphere has targeted the AP and Reuters for hidden agendas in their oh-so-perfect...continued...
We Media 2007
How Technology Can Help a Conference Succeed
I am back from the We Media conference in Miami, but I am not done reporting on what took place there, and how the conference helped clarify the role of “we media” or citizen media in society. While I spent the last couple blog posts savaging the parts of...continued...
We Media 2007
Informal Conversations Trump Pomp of Panels
MIAMI — Your tireless correspondent shook off the South Beach-induced hangover and slogged over to the University of Miami for another day of schmoozing and conversing at the We Media conference. Once again, I was impressed with the people who attended the confab, and learned a lot about what’s...continued...
We Media 2007
Mainstream Media Wants to Take Back Control
MIAMI — Thanks to the audience taking control of their media experience and creating their own media in blogs, podcasts, video and social networks, the people who are losing control have decided to meet — and meet, and meet again — until they figure out how they can take...continued...
