Two "Grassroots Media" Websites

OurMedia and NowPublic are two new websites dedicated to allowing normal folks to share media items (video, audio, news, etc.) with the world. Copyright: Copyright 2005

New Web sites to store public's digital content (SiliconValley.com via Yahoo!...

Tapping into a growing interest in so-called grass-roots media, two Web sites launched this week that aim to become repositories and clearinghouses for a wide variety of digital content created by the public.

Mena Trott Speaks at N-TEN

It’s clear from Six Apart’s acquisition of Live Journal, Yahoo!’s purchase of Flickr, the Yahoo! 360 service, and Microsoft’s MSN Spaces service that the blogosphere is changing. Jeremy Zawodny posted yesterday a few of his thoughts on where he...

NowPublic.com (beta) | NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public

With NowPublic, bloggers and citizen journalists can automatically dispatch reporters and photographers to the site of a news story anywhere in the world. At the same time photographers can safely distribute, manage, license and sell their work through NowPublic's portable,...

De bloggende burger als journalist

In mijn hoofdartikel van gisteren stipte ik al even aan dat de relatie tussen journalistiek en blogging een uiterst actueel thema is. In de UK vond eind februari een debat plaats over de vraag of de tradionele rol van journalisten bedreigd wordt door simpelweg iedereen die...

Clear Channel plans free Web concerts (CBS Market Watch)

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Clear Channel, the nation's largest owner of radio stations, is preparing to launch an ambitious program of made-for-the-Web concerts, with Rob Thomas, formerly of Matchbox 20, slated as the first performer, according to the New York Daily News.

New Web sites to store public's digital content (San Jose Mercury News)

Tapping into a growing interest in so-called grass-roots media, two Web sites launched this week that aim to become repositories and clearinghouses for a wide variety of digital content created by the public.

Web Sites Offer Place To Upload, Store Digital Media (TechNewsWorld.com)

The Ourmedia site puts few limits on the type of content that people can submit, beyond a prohibition on pornography and already copyrighted material. How-to videos are as valid as home video of Little League baseball games, student films or political videos.

New Web sites to store public's digital content (San Jose Mercury News)

Tapping into a growing interest in so-called grass-roots media, two Web sites launched this week that aim to become repositories and clearinghouses for a wide variety of digital content created by the public.

Citizen Journalists + Photographers = NowPublic

Look out OhmyNews and Wikinews, NowPublic is the next generation of citizen journalist sites. It aims to put photographers and citizen journalists together to bring us the news. Go take look and you'll instantly see what I mean. The message is clear, the site is clean and...

Tiny Fly

Spotted this tiny fly on the mutabilis rose and went for it with the close-up lenses. Lots of action on the mutabilis petals late this afternoon. I photographed an ant dragging off a ladybug. Decided not to upload that as I figured the massive tongue on the tiny fly was...

NowPublic.com launches

NowPublic , the new citizen's media site CyberJournalist.net reported on earlier this week , has launched as expected. Copyright: Copyright 2002-2004, Topix.net

It's All About You!

http://www.ourmedia.orghttp://www.nowpublic.comHere's two brand new grassroots sites. You supply the information: news, pictures, video and more.

Haida protest hits Queen Charlottes

Aboriginals complain they weren't consulted about transfer of tree-farm licence

Susan Mernit’s Blog: Launches

A big week for citizen journalism, with two major launches: NowPublic and Ourmedia. Susan points to NowPublic, which is a news site where anybody can report or request news about a given topic: Susan Mernit’s Blog: LaunchesNowPublic–new. A social network meets...