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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NowPublic is here at Vidfest liveblogging the McLuhan 2.0 conversation this morning, between Marshall McLuhan's son Dr. Eric McLuhan and our very own Michael Tippett. Follow my updates on Twitter here on...
The LA Time's coverage of the Cyclone discusses NowPublic's role:"Previous disasters have proved to be opportunities for "open-source" reporting, in which citizens post photographs, videos and written accounts that...
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If you are in Vancouver this month you should get to Vidfest. The festival's line-up includes some great people including Wired's Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson as well as John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the...
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This isn't really a news story but is a test of our new presence stream functionality. This photo was sent to NowPublic via shozu. If you've got a mobile phone it is an easy way to get stuff onto the site.
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If you're in Vancouver and are at Massive, I'll see you there. Don't hesitate to say hello. I'll be talking about:"The future of business and technology: the prosumer revolution
This 20 minute talk will focus on the prosumer revolution. It will give an...
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by Elecia Chrunik for www.thevancouverobserver.com NowPublic’s “crowd powered media” format takes the bold step of asking consumers of news to also be responsible for its content. An eBay-style...
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Andrew Keen has put out a book attacking citizen journalism among other things. Pundits have called Andrew Keen the Ann Coulter of the anti-citizen journalism movement. Lawrence Lessig says that Keen's...
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I did an Interview with Rory when I was in Seoul last month. Here is his piece:"MediaChannel’s Rory O’Connor reports on the present and future of citizen journalism for the Al Jazeera media program...
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-- Leading Citizen Journalism Service Rises to More Than 100,000 Contributing Reporters; Expands Its Relationship with AP to Include Major AP Bureaus Across United States --Time Magazine Names NowPublic.com One of...
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Earlier this week Leonard Brody, one of my co-founders at NowPublic sparked controversy in the blogosphere when he questioned the relevance of local news to the new generation of media consumers. He was quoted on GigaOm as saying:"“I’m not a believer in local...
It's official:"“Crowd sourced” news network NowPublic.com has closed a $10.6 milion series A round of financing led by Rho Ventures with seed investors Brightspark and the Working Opportunity Fund participating."
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I had the good fortune to speak with Bill Richardson at the CBC yesterday. Our conversation will be broadcast nationally on Friday at 10-10:30am. Tune in if you're interested.
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I joined Mark Evans at the ICE conference this year. He blogs about the panel we were on:"I was on a panel this morning about “Citizen Journalism” at the ICE conference in Toronto. One of the most...
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