By Uwe Paschen.As many went to Hokkaido, the northern Island of Japan to take part in the G8 there. They never expected what would happen nor what that they may witness the end of freedom of expression and maybe the...
The OMS or WHO, the World Heath Organisation Published it's annual report this week saying that Water, Drinking Water that is. Is of a major concern World Wide!The Report states that 10% of all Illnesses and as much...
More opinionsfrom under the many hats ofLee DunkelbergMany thanks to amyjudd for throwing my hat into the ring to be "Featured Member".Just the other day, I had to check as to when I joined up here and found it has...
I'm not a huge believer in Alexa's numbers but as I'm fond of saying, "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"."Everytime we publish our monthly Techvibes Start-Up Indexes, there are always a few complaints about the use of Alexa and Compete data...
NowPublic in the News, Citizen journalism site adds new features Update found at end of this story Here is a related story that was published first on NP from mtippett NP gets Kudos from Journalism Blogs...
I recently did an interview with the Canadian Press. Here is an excerpt from the final piece:"But the website's founder, Michael Tippett, says objectivity is less important than ensuring readers have access to...
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" Leonard Brody, founder of NowPublic, rejects the term "citizen journalism," which has often been applied to his business. "What [our contributors] do is not journalism. We don't call it that and never have." In...
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The International Institute of Nonviolence by: Rev. Jermano This article is a follow up to Now-Public writer Paschen who wrote an article on the direction of NowPublic News. This is my hope for that outcome....
"Headline: Citizen Journalism site NowPublic adds new features to "increase credibility and trust"According to a press release from PRNewswire, the citizen journalism website NowPublic has added three news features, which include "a member ranking system, a presence...
Headline: NowPublic - Now with Trust and Twitter"Vancouver-based news bookmarking and citizen journalism site NowPublic relaunched its website earlier this month and added a few new features that Mashable picked up on today. The new site design is less conservative that...
Headline: CITIZEN-JOURNALISM SITE RELAUNCHES WITH NEW FEATURES"NowPublic.com, a leading Vancouver-based "citizen-journalism" site that allows users from around the world to post their comments, photos and video of news events, has relaunched its website with new features....
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""I get asked, on a daily basis, about the trust factor in user generated news. The new features NowPublic just released are our answers, and, frankly, I think it gets to the heart of the matter in a way that traditional media has never been able to - by being transparent and...
It's always nice when people are watching -- especially since the re-design went live."BURLINGAME, Calif. and LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While there has been a litany of commentary and analysis covering online social networks in the consumer world, there has been a lack...
NowPublic's own Len Brody is heading to Halifax." Leonard Brody is Co-Founder and CEO of NowPublic. NowPublic is one of the pioneers in citizen-generated news and is quickly becoming one of the largest news agencies...
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Yesterday I met with Olivia Ma who is running Youtube's new CJ operation. She gets it. This should be interesting and in my opinion good for participatory news and NowPublic members (stay tuned)."Want to...
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