Orato - True Stories from Real People

Orato - True Stories from Real People

Interesting column on citizen photog, professional photog and the balance between

Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

Why U.S. cities need to work for fast broadband

Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News: "In South Korea, a country where more than 75% of homes have broadband Internet connections, the high-speed Internet is becoming as ubiquitous as electricity, and most household subscribers surf the Web at speeds of up to 5 megabits per second, considered blazingly fast in most of the world" Why can't I get this kind of service for $32/month without moving to Seoul?

Wired News: Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!

Flickr was bought by Yahoo. Now Yahoo wants to migrate Flickr users to its registration process and to open Yahoo accounts. Some of the most popular Flick photographers are threatening to leave when the switch goes on. This brings up questions of the psychology of our virtual selves, copyright uneasiness because Yahoo once claimed copyright of all the material on a system (Geocities) that it bought out. Will techies come to the rescue? Will the Flickr folks calm fears of the users? Why is it that Google has a better rep than Yahoo? These are surface disruptions that signal deeper transformations and ripples in our culture. Flick off

Blogoteers: Research on blogs and bloggers

Posted on my other blog, with some interesting findings about blog reader/user behavior, including this one: "50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. That is roughly 30% of all U.S. Internet users and 1 in 6 of the total U.S. population." Blogoteers: Research on blogs and bloggers

MySpace: Hip Hangout or A Place for Dolts ?

I have been posting about CyWorld, the "minihompy" site that is currently not available in English, but will be in 2006. Tied to that has been the thread about "DLA"s or digital lifestyle aggregators. MySpace.com is one of the social network sites that does some DLA. Myspace.com got a write up in the NYTimes (registration required) that made me want to drop my newsprint and run to my computer and sign up. Yet, a little bit of looking found there might be some problems with MySpace, of the security kind. MySpace: A Place for Dolts || kuro5hin.org: "What was at first a simple practical joke or internet 'magic trick' that could be used to impress or confuse your friends was now a massive security breach that could, with a little effort and know-how, enable snooping into, or even compromising of, people's accounts."

Roh's offer to cede power draws shrugs in South Korea - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune

What is new with President Roh? Roh's offer to cede power draws shrugs in South Korea - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune Meanwhile, South Korea and the USA drift apart, at least diplomatically.

"it is becoming imperative that journalists and journalism students continue to integrate blogs into their reporting..."

51% of journalists use weblogs "regularly" and 28% have incorporated blog use into their daily reporting according to a new survey. editorsweblog.org: US: 51% of journalists use blogs I will be presenting a "hands-on" session "Journalist's Tool circa 2005: The Beat Blog" at the SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists) convention in Las Vegas in October. Contact me if you would like to arrange a training session like that for yourself or your organization.

South Korea facing online-gaming addiction

Well, we knew that gaming had some negative aspects, and it seemed like some people play too much, but who knew it was fatal and addictive? I wonder if it really is. I think gaming is certainly a time sink, but I wonder if there isn't some similarity to television viewing in that if one watches with a critical eye, or a meta-perspective, instead of uncritically, it is less likely to cause harm. With TV, this is seen in the effect of parent influence on a child's viewing. If the parent views with the child, the negative influence is mitigated. I think that if the gameplayer is "metagaming" and engaging in "IRL" (in real life) discussion about the game, the effect of content is mitigated. Gaming

Why taste may be loser in age of instant high-tech news reporting - [Sunday Herald]

More discussion on the proliferation of "raw news" in the form of video and photos from folks on the street. Interesting reflections by the guy at Sky Television who decides what shows and what doesn't. The cross-cultural issue of what you can show within the limits of social norms comes up in the French vs. Anglo-Saxon taste discussion. This notes the initiation of Scoopt, the photo brokering service for the UK. Why taste may be loser in age of instant high-tech news reporting - [Sunday Herald]

What is a "citizen journalism editor?"

Here is a citizen editor who is asking readers to help define what citizens want from a news organization. It will be a thing to watch. OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page

Video games linked to aggression, study finds | CNET News.com

As a mother I knew this without the study, but it good to be backed up by research. The interesting part is that it appears if you watch with the kids and talk about the violence, the bad effect is mitigated. The trouble is, studies show that most kids nowadays have a TV in their room, so they watch alone and don't have the opportunity for the adult to kid reality check. I think my 19 year old will argue with me about this finding. I will report on that later. He stayed up late playing video games and so he's not up yet.Video games linked to aggression, study finds | CNET News.com

"Ubiquitous" means wired to the max

South Korea's Incheon Airport gets teched out. With 12 million visitors in a year, I guess they need to provide telematics, and WCDMA service. And look at the cool chairs....

Telecoms Korea

CJR Daily: Archives

This brief looks at "participatory journalism" as in the phonecam reports from the London Tube bombing that made their way to print or broadcast in MSM and "citizen" or "civic" journalism. Points to agree with:

• MSM has always used citizen photos or other eyewitness reports (Rodney King, Zapruder film, etc.)
• The analogy to "Citizen comedy" is a good one, in that it makes clear that there are elements, even if we don't list them all, that distinguish the "folk on the street" from a professional.

Points to question:

• That citizen journalism consists of solely an unedited blog or an unedited newsite

The hybrids, like Yourhub.comand Ohmynews.com and others where a "citizen journalist editor" edits copy, helps shape and even suggests stories, and writes stories, too, for the publication is one of the most robust models. It is not an "either/or" proposition. The future of news is going to consist of quality investigative reporting from brands we know, skillfully used and slightly edited citizen stories, and pure "eyewitness" footage, images, or audio that will supplemented by commentary or traditional reporting.CJR Daily: Archives

Citizen journalists move to broadcasting--with help from some stations

The frightening thing, or maybe threatening is a better word than frightening, about all digital technology and digital information is that is breaks down or eliminates barriers. What took specialist knowledge, tools, or skills to accomplish is now available to those who have a motivation to communicate. Those who have been "gatekeepers" for media and have decided what is news and what isn't were able to do that because while there might have been lots of news and stories out there, the process of publishing either in print or broadcast was difficult and expensive. Small cameras, personal DV equipment, computer non-linear editing, self-publishing software are all available now to many more people than in analog times. The balance between authority and public or expert and novice has to be recalibrated in mass media and it is troublesome as any big change is. Individuals have a lot to lose or gain. Society should be an overall winner at the end of the day. Broadcasting & Cable: The Business of Television: "In Nashville, WKRN is going a step further. The station not only is soliciting video but is also training locals. In July, it hosted 20 area bloggers, including Chenoweth, for a crash course in video production. At the workshop, station photographers gave instruction on basic videography and critiqued the students' work. "

Sex and Tech

Wired News: You'll Know When You're Older: "My generation takes for granted our options for sex without marriage, for birth control, for access to sex toys and couples-friendly porn. It's easy to forget that just 40 years ago, all of those things were out of reach for respectable people; just being single was suspicious enough, never mind having a sex life. That sex tech seems as normal to today's college freshmen as birth control pills do to me tells me that we're doing it right."

Wired News: How Mobile Phones Conquered Japan

I have the book on order. This is going to be a complement to the work I have done in virtual collaboration. Wired News: How Mobile Phones Conquered Japan: "As one college student is quoted as explaining to his professor, 'A lifestyle with keitai is so natural that one without (it), or one from which (it) is taken away, sounds unreal.' And by understanding how a once-alien technology became such a natural extension of everyday life in Japan, we may yet understand what is in store for the rest of the world."

Cindy Sheehan. Comments from visitors to Crawford

Down in Crawford with Cindy Sheehan. My friends in Texas sent me the photo and reports from the scene in Crawford. The father and daughter were generous enough to give me permission to post their comments and the picture here. These are from August 14th, 2005.

From Holly: I'm proud to say that I was part of something that will hopefully be reflected on in the future as something great. It really inspired me to start a revolution. ...Maybe not as far as that, but it really got me motivated to want to do something. I didn't get a chance to actually shake her hand and thank her due to the large amounts of people wanting to do the same thing. However, I did pat her shoulder and thanked her. My dad got a picture of me attempting to ask her to get a picture with me. On our way to the ranch, right in the middle of downtown Crawford, we saw the ickiest thing I have ever laid my eyes on. It's a Texasy-looking building that turned out to be a gift shop. The 10 commandments were displayed on the outside along with a replica of the Liberty Bell. From Louie, her father: Rather than another misspent Sunday, we took a drive to Crawford, TX. It was a very gratifying experience. Cindy Sheehan was very approachable and kind. We visited with her and at one point Rep. Maxine Waters came by which created a joyous stir. You will recall it was she who "starred" in Fahrenheit 911 as the one the Congress told to sit down and shut up. I took several pictures and we will savor the memory. I have a feeling Cindy Sheehan is about to become very very big indeed and will require a phalanx of protection. She threatens the entire RIGHT WING. They are in absolute orbit about her. One of them will try to kill her. The atomsphere there was one of reverence. The woman lost her son,after all. People didn't grab at her or raise their voices in the camp-- they gently deferred to her. The camp was generally serene. She is highly articulate and clear in an odd sort of inarticulate way. I hope you are reading her daily blogs. Her presence is one of great power, derived from the fact that she lost a son in Iraq. Across the street stood 7 or 8 "opponents". Two or three of them were children wearing campflauge and toting toy machine guns. They were very quiet and caused no trouble whatsoever. I fear that is about to change. The man who shot his gun was a complete fool. He seemed harmless enough but the signal he sent via this act is frightening, what with his reference to dove hunting and all. These images are seen around the world via CNN. There are a lot of kooks on the right and sooner or later they're coming to Crawford. To crawl through Crawford, TX is to witness an orgy of Bible-thumping, flag waving, Ten Commandment erecting, gun toting excess. In the center of town stands two--that's TWO, 8 foot high tablets of the 10 Commandments. They are large enought to see the words from a block away. OF course all of this is for the benefit of the tourists but the place is creepy to say the least. The big irony is that in the middle of this place is the Crawford Peace House which is currently serving as the nerve center of the protest. It is also the home of a newspaper which endorsed John Kerry. How they got away with that and still sell newspapers there is beyond me. It was worth the drive. A generation from now, history is going to recall a woman named Cindy Sheehan. She started a revolution.

Online News Squared: Web News Traffic Report Launches

This is cool from Scott Anderson's Online News Squared. Online News Squared: Web News Traffic Report Launches Akami says: News Sites The following companies represent just a sampling of the global news and information portals that trust Akamai to support their business. These leading businesses are some of the most visited websites around the globe for up-to-the-second information on breaking and continuing news coverage. Because of the relationship Akamai has with these companies, we are strongly positioned to track and plot how news is being consumed on a global scale. CNN Reuters NBC Seattle Times College Sports TV ESPN XM Satellite Radio PC World Communications Courtroom TV CCRTV LeMonde Premium TV Radio Notre Dame Schweizer Radio International NZZ AG

Education the ticket to America's new elitist class

Check this out. What an interesting thread to think about. Education the ticket to America's new elitist class

It ain't the meat, it's the motion could be new mantra for online news...

First there is the discussion about whether the print or online editor will be in charge of the new "converged" newsroom at the New York Times. Now this move to bring in a veteran television journalist who saw the broadcast area moving toward too much tabloid, and is jumping to interactive. Note the VP and Editor of The Star, Mark Zieman cites "declinining costs of video and audio technology as reasons why newspapers can succeed as multimedia enterprises." Former TV Anchor to Jumpstart Interactive at 'Kansas City Star': "%u201COur customers now have a dazzling array of options for consuming information,"he said, "including blogs, text messaging, pod casts and high-speed Internet over their cell phones. We intend to be the dominant local news provider on each of them -- a truly 'platform-neutral' news-gathering team."

CyWorld gets its millionth user.

INSIDE JoongAng Daily

Shameless self-promotion--click to read my Poynter.org tip

I am pleased that Steve Outing ran with my tip about YourHub and Ohmynews. He had an item about its print rollout yesterday, but I am glad to see the interest in how the editor-citizen journalist situation is evolving. The secret of many a good writer is the good editor behind them. I suspect that the citizen journalist editor role will call for more negotiation and also a broader vision of what is journalism. I see editors nudging citizen journos closer to journalistic standards like fact-checking, while the citizen journos nudge the editors to looking at "what's news" from more diverse perspectives. As Tom Rosentiel told Rick Edmonds in a "State of the Media 2005" report:

The new news forms are like "a free-flowing conversation with all the advantages and disadvantage that implies," Rosenstiel writes, compared to the lecturing-at-you format of old media. Blogger activists, he predicts, will force traditional media to be more transparent about their sources and to hold themselves to higher levels of proof. They may even be drawn into refereeing debates that begin in the non-traditional media.

Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

Feder sees the irony...ABC didn't follow its own advice.

ABC fails to heed its own virus warning

From "The Hill" on blogs

'One of the all-time greats' calls it a career: "Bloggers are ubiquitous now, they are giving everyone a voice," Eisele said. He praised the emerging medium for "Cdemocratizing journalism" but added that he is still apprehensive about many of the sites because they don't have editors or filters."

Blogworking ? What the heck is that? DLA? Is that a new cadre of the SLA?

Why am I interested in CyWorld, digital lifestyle aggregators, and blogworking? Because once one of these virtual places hits big with the public, it will cause a rapid and shocking (to those who weren't paying attention) transformation of media space. It is going to be the "place" where lots of folks in the desireable demographics (young, wealthy, "early adapters) begin to spend the important elements of our developing post-industrial economy: time, attention, and money. I'll be expounding on this, but here are some of the basic facts, for now: I have been posting about CyWorld which is a South Korean social networking software site that has 25 million users (and makes lots of money each quarter) and will soon be available in an English version. CyWorld is eliminating e-mail usage in Korea, for example. This soon to be ready "GoingOn" is called "the next-gen social network" by a blogging buddy, J. D. Lasica. The point of this enterprise is create an effective "Digital Lifestyle Aggregator" Note that as of today, 8/16/05, there are 3480 Google hits on "digital lifestyle aggregator." Here is Marc Cantor's description, as he seems to be one of the most vocal proponents of DLA. What happens when AlwaysOn gets GoingOn? Blogworking Take Two? :: AO

Wired News: RFID: The Future Is in the Chips

Here is an update on what is happening in the business world regarding RFID chips. There is lots of investor kind of action. The uses are still discussed more than implemented. At 25¢ or so for a passive RFID chip (one that has no power source) they are becoming affordable. This doesn't mention any new protestors, and even notes that most of the protesters just don't like tracking humans, but don't seem to be against tracking inventory. They are among us (the chips) and their use will likely grow. Look around and see where you can find them.Wired News: RFID: The Future Is in the Chips RFID

Academia's quest for the ultimate search tool - page 2 | CNET News.com

New search tools in the works. Academia's quest for the ultimate search tool - page 2 | CNET News.com

'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal

Please leave a comment if this story surprises you in any way. 'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal

“the greatest news organizations in the land had a story about a potential crime that reached as close as you can get to the president himself and they punted..."

from Usagewatch about CyWorld

Ohmynews Citizen Forum - Seoul - June23-26, 2005
Originally uploaded by biverson.

Usagewatch puts the size of CyWorld in perspective. Where about 7% of the USA are bloggers, in South Korea between 25-30% have blogs through CyWorld.

I have posted about CyWorld frequently since I visited their facility because I was awestruck at how big they were. I've been tracking the development of their CyWorld product that will be rolled out in the USA in 2006. Marc Cantor, from Macromedia is consulting on the rollout.

If they simply port their model, I think it will be big here, but not as big as in Korea because of differences in the social patterns of Americans and ironically, because our access to broadband pales compared to smaller but tech-savvy nations like South Korea. We are 16th now in broadband penetration, and actually falling.

If they are shrewd, and adopt the CyWorld concept to the sensibilities of Americans, I think this will be one of those "killer app" plus mega-meme, what we called "fads" in the 1950s, phenomena.

CyWorld could draw in lots of women. Not just young women who are probably SMSing already, but older women who could relate to the analogy of one's own space as their virtual extension in cyberspace.

Keep reading for more on CyWorld as its English-version rollout comes along. UsageWatch.org: How many people publish, read or contribute to blogs? 2.0

Rocky Mountain News: Columnists

Citizen journalism moves forward in Colorado. John Temple writes about the new section of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News that was culled from their website. Like Ohmynews.com, this publication combines citizen reporters' stories with those of reporters from the two papers. Rocky Mountain News: Columnists: "On Thursday, more than 400,000 households in the seven-county metro area received a YourHub.com section atop their Rocky Mountain News or Denver Post. All of the 'news' in those sections came from stories and photos posted by residents - and a few of our journalists - on 40 YourHub.com Web sites."

Can newspapers reverse their decline? - baltimoresun.com

This advice seems patently obvious to me. You have new hybrid creations like the Tribune's Daywatch e-newsletter or Denver's Yourhub or Greensboro's efforts that are tapping interest in hyperlocal news and events. You have bloggers providing interesting commentary, analysis, and generally editiorializing. And bloggers, unlike many newspapers, don't make it hard for their readers to talk back to them. What is left that would interest people? Gee, good, hard-hitting news reporting of stories from wherever they are breaking. Investigative reporting that takes time, teams, and talent to pursue. I'd pay for that and so would lots of people. Newspapers should get back to basics: news but forget the paper part. Get the news out there and let the readers pick what format they will read it in. I think a syndicate like AP but serving readers is the eventual direction news will go. Remember the Chris Albritton, reporter who financed his reporting on the war from contributions, supplying his donors with news from the front? Can newspapers reverse their decline? - baltimoresun.com : "Instead, newspapers should be challenging their readers by providing difficult-to-obtain firsthand reports from around the world that are unavailable anywhere else. They should combine that reporting with bracing, counterintuitive commentary that would provoke thought and discussion in the civic arena." Related item: Influence of blogs grows from Scott Anderson's blog.

The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert

How one of my favorite sci-fi authors considers himself a "yellow journalist."The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert

Like the best muckraking yellow journalists of the news media, I ask questions that other people aren't asking, and do a lot of investigating into the world around me. So even though I try to write entertaining, future-oriented stories, my books always contain messages that%u2014I believe%u2014are relevant to our situation today.

Reflections of a Newsosaur: View from the caboose

Here is a good analysis of media company future prospects with a fun illustration the author created from some model trains. And, if you are in the caboose, you might be side-tracked, derailed, and sent to a heritage museum...Reflections of a Newsosaur: View from the caboose: "The legacy media companies need to remember what happened to cabooses. They were sidetracked permanently by railroads 20 years ago when new technology made them unnecessary. Any remaining cabooses are strictly museum pieces."

Warmongering Media

Listen to this commentary on the media. Then listen or watch news today and tonight. You might check out some alternate sources of news such as truthout.org Start to think for yourself by evaluating the news you get and by seeking to corroborate stories from several sources. His words are strong, but if our government is sending our troops into harm's way for cynical reasons and the corporate media are shoring up their own interests in coverage, who is looking out for the interests of the not so rich and hardly powerful? The Black Commentator - Radio BC Glen Ford served as Capitol Hill, State Department and White House correspondent, and Washington Bureau Chief for the Mutual Black Network, where he also delivered daily radio commentaries. He also created the national radio syndication Black Agenda Reports, featuring five daily programs on Black History, Women, Business, Sports and Entertainment, produced the national radio series Black History Through Music, and founded Rap It Up, the first national Hip Hop radio show. He has been a newsperson at many local radio stations. Listen to this commentary on the media. What do you think? The Black Commentator - Radio BC The co-publishers of The Black Commentator are Glen Ford and Peter Gamble. They have been friends and collaborators on various media projects for nearly 30 years since working together as network broadcast journalists in Washington, D.C. In 1977 Glen and Peter created America's Black Forum, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television. Under their guidance, ABF was quoted weekly by national and international news organizations. A feat no other Black news entity has accomplished, before or since.

TV via Internet: series debut online for free

"Help me, I am a television person and my content has come unglued from its timeslot. Now, a kind of viewing for those of us who are as busy as everyone else, but set our own schedules." My prediction: we will soon see a story about how watching TV during the workday is cutting into worker productivity. But if they get their work done, why does anyone care how/when it happens? Could this be a herald of work becoming unstuck from the 9-5 rigid schedule of the industrial age? I am probably still just seeing the future a bit too far in advance of today. At least I have stopped looking in the rearview mirror. PR Newswire for Journalists :: All Releases Lexis-Nexis adds video search

From the wa-po: Echo of the Wired Story about CyWorld.

What a Difference an Hour Makes: "13 Million Koreans Can't Be WrongWired.com has a story today about Cyworld, a social networking company run by South Korea's SK Communications. Now, I am aware that there are a ton of social networks out there, and for all their popularity, they aren't setting financial analysts on fire -- figuratively speaking.Cyworld, however, seems to be hotter than a fresh bowl of yuk gae jang: 'According to the service, Cyworld jumped from 10 million to 13 million users in 2004. A quarter of the country's 48.2 million people have signed up, including 90 percent of the 24- to 29-year-old age group, the company claims.'A quarter of the population? Sounds like press release boilerplate material, but I'm not ready to dismiss it out of hand. Here's more:'Users get their own page, a virtual living room called a minihompy where they can create diaries, publish images, network, host legal background music and more. Members personalize their minihompy with virtual objects they purchase from Cyworld, and enhance it with up to 10 tracks of background music they can buy and play for visitors. Universal Music International sells 100,000 tracks a day though Cyworld, according to Adam White, Universal's vice president of communications,' Wired reported. ('Hompy', by the way, is the Korean-language equivalent of 'home page.')The article continues: 'Like Friendster, Cyworld lets users create networks based on degrees of closeness. But Cyworld is Friendster-plus. As well as websites and blogs, Cyworld has its own version of the popular game The Sims. It also gives users unlimited image hosting, the ability to update pages by mobile phone and special-interest bulletin boards. The service has its own currency called dotoris (acorns) and its own slang and social obligations.'Apparently etiquette is even more important here than on other sites, according to Cyworld user Charlie Shin, who said that 'Korean social customs contribute to Cyworld's success. 'Everyone [who visits your page] starts leaving you messages,' said Shin. 'If you don't write back or leave a [guestbook] message on their site, they get upset.' In Korea, not responding in a timely fashion is seen as rude and upsetting. The end result is a 'vicious and unending cycle of messages,' Shin said. 'You can literally spend all day on the site writing everyone a message.''Introduce this to the North and I guarantee you they'll have no time to keep playing with plutonium.Apologies for not being able to find an English-language version. Cyworld's international editions include Chinese and Japanese, but the only English I could find was on the Chinese site where an anime boy orders me to 'JUST BE HAPPY!'"

The Korea Times : Campaign to Rid Korea of Japanese Jargon

More on the efforts by the Korean government to purge Japanese words from Korean. "No. 18" has a cool sound, no matter what it means, so maybe we should adopt it as an American expression. "Hey, that site is very No. 18, dude." The Korea Times : Campaign to Rid Korea of Japanese Jargon : "www.cyworld.nate.com/lovelovekore"

Video games in South Korea for everyday living

When bang doesn't mean a noise. Video games in South Korea for everyday living

ABC 7 (part of Disney) comes out with podcasts of its programming

Now you can take ABC news with you as a podcast or on your wireless cellphone. This is what "we" the new user/viewers want. The content delivered to us where we are, when we want it. The small screen news is better designed for the small screen than it used to be. I tried out some of these news offerings last summer and they were too slow or presented windows that had to be scrolled. Now the news is just plain text and it loads quickly.

Daily Wireless - CyWorld

Here is more coverage on CyWorld. So far, most of the mentions end up "echoing" a story from May by Deborah Cameron. That one story was reprinted and is referred to often. This latest story also cites a post from SmartMobs. When CyWorld, which is a social networking software build around the "minihompy" or mini homepage hits the states, I think it will have to altered from what is popular in South Korea. In South Korea, the participants decorate their minihompy with backgrounds, music, and articles for their avatar or the figure that represents them in the virtual world, that they buy from SK Communications. Fees are nominal, similar to ringtones, but the article disappears after a couple of months, causing most people to buy replacements. There is lots of commenting on how minihompys look so folks update them often to keep the comments postive. I asked the SK Comm spokesman when I visited CyWorld's control room and headquarters if users might upload designs of their own, like the modders do in video games like the Sims. "No way" he replied. "That's how we make our money." CyWorld itself is free to join. I just don't think the buy everything approach will work in the USA. Also, the art style is cartoonish and stylistic, and I don't think it will appeal to everyone. Daily Wireless - CyWorld

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

This is interesting. A bit like the French and their purges of English expressions. In a connected world, is it possible to get rid of influences from foreign languages? Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media newssite

A perspective on living in South Korea. p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site

documentary:BLOG

Checking up on past projects I came across the "documentary:Blog" site and was pleased to find a link to my blog and also that a couple clips are online. The clips are not just okay, but they look really good. I like to write and think about blogs and sometimes I know I can make a good point, but a good movie about a bunch of pajama-clad writers? Good work, team Blog. Producer/Director/Writer/Editor……………………Andrew Marcus Producer/Writer…………………………………………….Tori Marlan Cinematographer……………………………………………Joesph Farris Sound Designer………………………………………………Jeffrey Bella Sound Engineer………………………………………………Michael Kadela documentary:BLOG

ABA Backs Federal Shield Law

ABA Backs Federal Shield Law

The ABA declined 30 years ago to back a reporter shield law, but lawyers reconsidered the proposal after New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed a month ago for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Reporting can be hazardous department

This is from the blog "foo" and all I can say is watch the video for a good laugh. I wonder if the reporter got the munchies? forgetfoo. %u2014 Stoned Reporter %uFFFD

Google says Cnet went too far in googling

A spat in cyberjourno-ville. Google says Cnet went too far in googling

Wired News: Koreans Find Secret Cybersauce

Wired News discovers CyWorld. Wired News: Koreans Find Secret Cybersauce

Wikimania, future of Wikipedia and related efforts

I wish I could have attended Wikimania. Media is a Plural - Rory O'Connor's Blog: Wikimania

Ohmynews Citizen Forum - Seoul - June23-26, 2005

Ohmynews Citizen Forum - Seoul - June23-26, 2005
Originally uploaded by biverson.

CyWorld's control room in Seoul.

More on Cyworld

Cyworld is getting more and more attention. The pseudo-shareware concept seems solid to me. All about Mobile Life - More on Cyworld

FCC Hires Conservative Indecency Critic

This approach is one of those places where media reformers of all convictions can agree. Channel by channel would be good for indie programming, lower rates, and if it pleases everyone, why not do it? FCC Hires Conservative Indecency Critic: "Cable operators are facing demands that they offer subscribers channel-by-channel program selection, in part so consumers need not subsidize racy programming that is part of broad programming tiers. Such an approach is favored by consumer groups that want to cut monthly cable bills and by many cultural conservatives, including the Concerned Women group that Nance served. "

ZigBee is coming out of total geekdom and becoming accessible to others.

Slashdot | Simple-to-use ZigBee Hardware

Down in San Antone, at AEJMC, journalism educators are realizing....

"Blogs are not a big deal to them," Branham said. "Some of us kind of look at blogs as this strange animal. Is it journalism? Is it not journalism?" While journalism students at UT soon will begin learning about blogging, the first priority is to teach them the basics, such as writing skills and media law and ethics. Then these budding journalists will study how to gather news in the high-tech era. "They're going to help change the culture in the newsroom," Branham said. "They don't think it's a big deal to get an audio clip to go with their story or to get a piece of video" to link to an online story. These young journalists will usher in a new chapter in which they have the opportunity to gather diverse viewpoints like never before, Jarvis said. "It's a very exciting time because there are all these new outlets for news," he said. "It's away from mass one-size-fits-all media toward niche media."

MySA.com: Metro | State

The implications of this one are scary. Think "Darknet."

%uFFFD Who owns the air? | Open Source | ZDNet.com: "I hope one makes it to court soon, so we know whether open source communication is a right of the people, controlled by the federal government, or a property right real estate owners can transfer, based on local contract law."

Trending--Internet eating away at TV viewing time.

CNN.com - Study: Technology 'optimists' turn off TV - Aug 3, 2005

Online News Squared: Teens Are Power RSS Users (Relatively)

It is 5% now, and 55% next time they check. RSS is "push" that isn't pushy. The way it feels to me is comfortable. What I mean, is I add some sites to an RSS feed. Then I can let the feed sit for hours or weeks. When I go back to the RSS news reader/aggregator Newsburst is my new fav) I get the latest stories, but many aggregators (bloglines for example, give you an idea of how much has been posted while your attention was away from a particular feed. It is still lots of info, and somewhat chaotic, but it makes the chaos manageble. Try it, you might like it. Online News Squared: Teens Are Power RSS Users (Relatively)

When imitation is an irritating form of flattery

Chinese knockoffs of cyberworlds and products. Now that's a first.Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

Back to Art Hacks.

Look at pictures that go with this story. They are a hoot. Wired 13.08: Art Attack

Municipal WiFI: a political "hot potatoe?"

NYTimes requires registration, but this short piece is interesting. The US is slipping in terms of the quality of its Internet infrastructure as it abandons the government sponsored model of interconnectivity for one that leaves the connections to private businesses. Can't hear me now? Think about it. This guy is doing a press conference on how you call 911 from an NYC subway: His pal will have a tin can and string in the subway. The pal will talk to Mr. Rasiej who will be on the other end of the string with his own tin can. The pal in the subway will ask Rasiej to call 911. Rasiej will use his cellphone to place the call. What a picturesque little scene. This is a BIG issue, and as writer Friedman points out, all congress is doing is letting gun manufacturers out of any responsibility...Can they hear us? I wonder. Calling All Luddites - New York Times: "Mr. Rasiej argues that we can't trust the telecom companies to make sure that everyone is connected because new technologies, like free Internet telephony, threaten their business models. 'We can't trust the traditional politicians to be the engines of change for how people connect to their government and each other,' he said. By the way, he added, 'If New York City goes wireless, the whole country goes wireless.'"

t r u t h o u t - Mark Crispin Miller | None Dare Call It Stolen - the Election

Here is a story about the media and how it covers news that matters. We probably can't "recall" the election results that were faked, but for the sake of our country we need to understand how the election outcome was rigged and act to stop this kind of manipulation. t r u t h o u t - Mark Crispin Miller | None Dare Call It Stolen - the Election

The Dark Side of Technorati Tags

As a big proponent of tags, this has given me pause. I use the flickr tags to separate < a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/biverson/">my pics of ponds or my lovely kids from work-related images. But I must admit I haven't had much reciprocal linking from Technorati either. Well, I even began to learn Applescript so I could paste the tag code into the BlogThis! box with ease. Now I am going to run tag less and think about it a bit. More on this at a later point.Om Malik's Broadband Blog : The Dark Side of Technorati Tags

Got a dog? Get this spray...

News of the strange but practical. You can read it for yourself...if you've ever had a dog, it will have a kind strange attraction.Boing Boing: New spray laminates dog turds so they don't squish when you scoop

American Journalism Review

Coming soon to Columbia's own in-the-loop: a wiki, and with Nora Paul and Scott Anderson endorsing it, why not? American Journalism Review

calendarlive.com: Does radio have a future?

An example of McLuhan's "disruptive" technology. Digital signals shifts and changes for radio industry. Is radio dead? Probably not. Is is morphing into something different than it has been? Probably. calendarlive.com: Does radio have a future?: "Will radio's influence be diminished? Absolutely,' said Alex DeMers, president of DeMers Programming Media Consultants, based near Philadelphia. 'Is it going to go through change, maybe radical change? Yes. Is it going to go away? No way.'"

Marc Canter, "GoingOn, SNA and DLA (digital lifestyle aggregator)

Marc's Voice: Thank you Dana Blankenhorn: "And while we're on the subject of SNS - GoingOn is not just that. Social networking is a feature. It's about putting people into context. Just like CD ROMs, web access or (shudder) multimedia. I call this new category of products - DLAs (digital lifestyle aggregators.) Integration, aggregation and customization is at the core of these new kind of products. And in addition to social networking, there's personal publishing (pushing into the realm of micro-content publishing), communication, mobile and media. ALL of these aspects together make up DLAs. All sitting on top of open standards." More on DLA's and open source journalism by Dana Blankenship.

4 ppl of a certN age hu DK SMS lingo

So the buzz today is all about the Pew/Internet study Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transistion to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation" One of the major points being (no surprise to parents of teens) that teens use text messaging or SMS frequently and instead of email. Of course, they have developed a pidgin vocabulary to accomodate typing on a telephone. As some might recall, I had a recent incident when a fellow blogger accused me of being to "LOTR" and I had to make an emergency call to my 20 year old son in Cincy to find out what "LOTR" (Lord of the Rings) meant. The particular accusation was that I was being like Sauron, the big eye, and thus too critical. Anyway, to save others from puzzlement and seeming like you are "86" (out of) it, here are links to various explanations of the lingo as well as dictionaries and even a form where you fill in the SMS and it returns the meaning. Have fun, but don't end up AATK. Signing out for now, AAYR, barbara i. Guide to acronyms and text messaging. SMS Text Message Acronyms Type in the SMS and get back its meaning Web Friend slang dictionary Traveling to Britain? Here is the BBC's Fcts + Fgrs