Reuters Looks to Africa and a Decentralized Future for Media
The 155-year-old Reuters wire service has been reinventing itself for the modern age of decentralized journalism, where millions of people…
Satellite Radio Wants FCC to Save Them From Themselves
The two giants who provide satellite radio services, XM and Sirius, would like to merge in order to provide greater…
Viacom’s YouTube Conundrum
The heavyweights of the media world are lining up in opposition to YouTube, and supporting Viacom’s recent removal of all…
Top Five Week Fifty-Five
SoCon07 Southern-flavored social media unconference Wikipedia cash crunch Reports of imminent demise greatly exaggerated eWeek’s weak move Uses widely panned…
AP Warms Up to Blogs, Citizen Media at NowPublic
There’s something bland and homogeneous about an Associated Press wire story. Just the facts, ma’am, in classic inverted pyramid style.…
How Technology Can Help a Conference Succeed
I am back from the We Media conference in Miami, but I am not done reporting on what took place…
What would motivate you to contribute to a citizen media site?
Let’s say you were a witness to something tragic or exciting, something newsworthy like a terrorist bombing or a record-breaking…
Informal Conversations Trump Pomp of Panels
Inside the auditorium MIAMI — Your tireless correspondent shook off the South Beach-induced hangover and slogged over to the University…
Mainstream Media Wants to Take Back Control
MIAMI — Thanks to the audience taking control of their media experience and creating their own media in blogs, podcasts,…
Pew Internet Finds Good (and Bad) of Web’s Social Impact
For those of us who spend much of our lives online, we get hunches about the way things are. It…