“Citizen Journalism Networks Stepping Up Editorial Standards,” states DigiDave in his recent post. Just as he does I try to avoid the “professionals good - amateurs wrong” (or vice versa, which is far more frequent) debate about journalism, since I think it mostly exaggerates and misses the point. My view is that these two branches [...]
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Posted in New Media, News Agencies, Newspapers on Jul 31st, 2009
Starting from scratch is what not many people do. It is not natural, sometimes not quite useful (my fellow fans of Zdenek Jirotka´s book Saturnin will know exactly what I mean) but in other instances it can be very innovative and revealing. I think one such project was recently announced by Elsevier and is called [...]
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Posted in Digital Media, Financing on Nov 28th, 2008
After I finished my post about Twitter I went “out” browsing and found a very interesting information here about
The Kaiser Family Foundation is starting a news service to produce in-depth coverage of the policy and politics of health care, both for an independent Web site and in collaborations with mainstream news organizations.
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Posted in Digital Media, Music, New Media on Jul 14th, 2008
This is definitely an Apple week. After the problems with people not being able to register their new 3G iPhones to O2 network, the mania reached the Marks and Spencer and throuh them, us. My wife and son went shopping - and this is what they brought - the “iPod enabled jacket”.
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