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The rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds an important cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology
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PAX is only a draft concept but it hopes to tap into the crowd-sourcing and networking potential of the Internet bringing together the vast amounts of data and expertise out there. This would be combined with grass-roots - perhaps mobile-based - instant reporting on developing situations. A team would aggregate this content in an informed way and use it to persuade/encourage people in power to act and act quickly before the potential crisis becomes a real, happening disaster.
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“We are just at the beginning. The opportunities for combining communications and transactions on mobile are extraordinary,”
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The Associated Press draws a line at a state’s border and charges newspapers more to get news from across an entire region, or the whole country. But we know that news doesn’t stop at the state line. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can create their own content sharing networks to cover any region, topic, national issue, or hyperlocal concern.
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We now have a growing and fascinating array of tools with which to share information with others, “social” tools. Having spent some time recently thinking about why we share (posts here and here), I wanted to spend some time sharing my thoughts with you on the topic of what we share; in a few days’ time, I will spend some time looking at the question of whom.
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What types of news stories do consumers share and discuss the most? What issues do they have less interest in? What is the interplay of the various new media platforms? And how do their agendas compare with that of the mainstream press?
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May 24, 2010
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FAcebook Founder responds to Privacy critics
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The Open Society Media Program has launched a major new research project into the global impact of new media technology on the production and consumption of news. Work on eight out of 40 countries is underway, with local experts and partner organisations.
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The truth is that broadcast television alone has become too narrow a platform to sustain a world class news division. ABC News is no longer competing with just CBS News and NBC News but with CNN and npr and The New York Times and the BBC and Reuters and News Corp and so on. ABC News, once a third of a mass media oligopoly, is now a small contestant, with a shrinking audience, in a multi-competitor business, awash with overcapacity.
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May 22, 2010
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70%-of-journalists-are-using-social-networking-sites-48-are-on-twitter
Nearly 80% of journalists surveyed believe that bloggers have become important opinion-shapers in recent years 91% of journalists surveyed agree that new media and communications tools and technologies are enhancing journalism to some extent
(tags: socialomedia digital internet journalism news blogs future futureofnews)
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May 20, 2010
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Government intervention has become more pronounced and pervasive – and censorship and surveillance practices are on the rise. First-generation controls, typified by China’s “Great Firewall,” are being replaced by more sophisticated techniques that go beyond mere denial of information and aim to normalize (or even legalize) a climate of control. These next-generation techniques include strategically timed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeted malware, surveillance at key points of the Internet’s infrastructure, take-down notices, and stringent terms-of-usage policies.
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The AP setting out to fact-check US media - with success
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WHy deleveraging - reducing debt - could mean a longer more difficult haul for business this time
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May 19, 2010
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John Palfrey interviews Tim Berners Lee at Google Zeitgeist Europe 2010 on data, openness and transparency...
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Analysis of a COntent Farm by readwriteweb.com
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Whisper it now....The future is mobile
We all know the future is mobile....and ad supported. Onion News Network has the details [PS: watch out for the Yahoo YPhone sting at the end :) ]
New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users' Ears
(HT Lloyd Shepherd )
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What do Foreign Correspondents do next?
Some of you know I;ve been doing some work with the Reuters Institute on the future of the foreign correspondent. It seems Eric Weiner and Thomas Crampton worked it out some time ago with this list of ten things a foreign correspondent can do next. And before anyone hits me with number 5 I'd point out I was only ever number 2.
(HT: Graham Holliday)
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