In an article about citizen journalism on Wednesday, the Canadian Press gave NowPublic top dibs. " "I am no longer going to look at the news because it's something historical and something I want to see," said...
I just came across this and it surprised me too. Personally speaking, McCain's previous site sucked. It wasn't worth the effort going on there because, well, it was unnavigable. But the new one is better and is...
created by BigT | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 260 views | 14 recommendations | 3 comments
I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this sort of thing, but right now Microsoft is the only gaming console offering users the chance to put their own games online - and keep most of the profits.With the market penetration Microsoft has (they sold over 500 million items over the...
"Cannes, France-- Could you be arrested for uploading my film or clip on the internet? India Eu Film Initiative (www.iefilmi.com) brings you a fascinationg debate on the content that you as an ordinary user of the...
created by Richard Drewmore | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 245 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
As the multimedia news streams grows and content supplied by "users" becomes part of the news, new jobs are popping up. The latest is "group multimedia editor" for the Glasgow Herald, says Editors Weblog: "John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will...
created by biverson | 1 year ago 533 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Apparently the Y-Tube chose nominees by considering videos "that really will stand out and
over time". But I wonder what that means anymore. Water cooler chatter now seems to happen, increasingly, in a minute to...
Sounds like Thom & the boys are hoping for a user-gen gem that can rival the lo-fi brilliance of 'Paranoid Android'.Any takers?"TBD Records, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and animation Web portal Aniboom.com...
"CNN is close to expanding its "iReport" user-generated reporting initiative into a separate Web site, MediaWeek wrote Monday.
The new site, to be hosted at iReport.com, will be a repository for user-submitted news content--video, audio, and photos. Visitors can navigate...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago 346 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Innovative but unproven": perhaps the most concise and perfect definition of the entire new media/web 2.0/user-gen/social medial landscape."Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has...
Stop the insanity. Stop it now!"It’s frothy out there in web round 2, assuming we’re in round 2, and all those bubbles really add to the effect. Each day, I see more than one new speech bubble logo....
created by MikeT | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 809 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Len revealed our plans to spend the cash on Canada AM today..."A Vancouver-based Internet company is aiming to become the world's largest news agency by leveraging the content created by regular people all over...
created by mtippett | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 842 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The employers of the 3% of the executives mentioned below who believe that user generated content is a fad may want to take the severance package and start shopping for a timeshare in Cabo."User-generated content is one of the media and entertainment industries' biggest...
created by the source | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 881 views | 15 recommendations | 3 comments
"You might think it's just the users that produce user-generated content, but not so. The BBC has wobble-cam piece on YouTube about how it deal with submissions from users.
Someone very sarcastically commented that it "just shows that you have to have quality to cut through...
created by AlanEvans | 2 years ago 557 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
UPDATE: There may be hope for YouTube--apparently the King has pardoned a Swiss man who was charged with defacing pictures of the King during the 60th Anniversary of his rule last December. The man, who is a...
created by Kaitlin | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 3146 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments