Content 2.0 Review

The big news of the past week or so might be Rupert Murdoch looking around to buy a blogging platform, blogged by GigaOm but a story that is in fact nearly six months old, or Google wooing YouTube, or indeed Al Gore’s Current TV coming to Europe in a deal with Murdoch’s Sky.
Of course […]

File Sharing Trial Ends in Defeat for MPAA

The first man in Sweden to be charged with file-sharing has been acquitted.From Västerås in central Sweden, he allegedly distributed the Swedish film Hip Hip Hora online, says The Local. But, “The Court of Appeal decided that it does not have sufficient proof that the film was uploaded from the man’s computer,” says the story. […]

New Citizen Media Projects Make a Splash

AGORAVOX - The Citizen Media
/Olivier Niquet last week explained that the Canadian citizen media paper which he helped found, Cien Papiers, is inspired by Agoravox so this morning I went across and took a look.
Agoravox (literally I suppose it means voice market or opinion bazaar) is available in French and English. Its founders are French […]

More Views on What’s Next

Last week American and European content experts gathered in Amsterdam for Cross Media Week. From the very first presentation I got the feeling there is one big division in how the immediate future is perceived and, at first, it looked like the difference revolved around where you live (America or Europe).
The week began with two […]

Dan Gillmor on New Media

Dan Gillmor of the Center for Citizen Media made the point that the business model used by newspapers may implode before we’ve nurtured a replacement. I asked him to expand on that.
His analysis, a bit like I’ve said here a few times, is newspapers began laying off journalists because the papers were not improving profits […]

Craig’s List and The Good Web

Craig Newmark is notoriously self-effacing about the success of Craig’s List and famously uninterested in monetising hus business beyond his needs. On the stage at Crossmedia Week a couple of questions from the audience inferred that Craig’s List could be a more collaborative environment for other companies in the social network’s scene - akin to […]

Welcoming Visitors from Other Language Groups

Bienvenue aux visiteurs francais. Cet blog est anglais en grande partie naturellement, mais j’ai cherché une manière de saluer le gens qui visitent des cultures non-Anglaises.
La diversité est une partie vraiment importante du monde blogging. Ich weiß, daß es einige deutsche Besucher gibt. Wilkommen.Y de España.
Europeans are getting pretty good at communicating across their language […]

Diversifying Views at My Name is Kate

There are few blogs in the technology sector (OK, I don’t know many of them) that take the trouble to express opinion on a range of issues but one such is My Name is Kate.
Something’s going on in the Canadian blog community that makes it stand out from a lot else that’s going on.
I […]

The Good Blogs

I got this from Vernon Lun at TheGoodBlogs after I asked him to write a few words about ther aims and progress. I really wish these guys well - their objectives are exactly what the web needs right now.
We’re two Canadian software veterans (30+ years of software development between the two of us). After many […]

Waymarkr - a Conceptual/Perceptual Web 2.0

Waymarkr

“We experience our daily environments through the lens of assumption fueled by past experience. Out in the world, we see what we decide to see, we see what helps us make sense of our world. The WayMarker project breaks down our self imposed walls of perception by giving us an alternative perspective on our daily […]

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