PROVING that citizen journalism is coming of age, NowPublic has received a major boost -- namely $10.6
million in financing.
Here's an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse
article.
The financing is led by Rho Ventures in the United States and Canad a. Uses for the money will include ways to reward people that upload stories or im ages, and developing a system to "geo-locate" contributors so they can be found if they are in range of developments deemed newsworthy.
"We are moving to geo-locating people so we can do some cool stuff, " Brody said. "For example, if there is a bomb in a subway station in London or a virus break s out in Google's cafeteria and media can't get their fast enough we can identi fy people on the scene already and get their content," Brody said.Hmm, this makes me wonder: is there a citizen journalism site in the Philippine s that you think deserves the same kind of investment? Say, if we had money to spare, which Filipino citizen journalism site would you want INQUIRER.net to in vest money in or purchase outright? :) I'm just curious, but hey, you never know :)
I've none yet in mind but I'm hopeful some sites will pop up one day. That's wh
at I want for my site - sort of like Inquirer's The Good News section - but on
a ground level.. Small things, local, school-related and community-driven - all
positive and good.
We all need good news from the grass roots, specially.
citizen journalism is popular now in korea. here in pinas, not yet. but blogger
s are now everywhere...almost
I believe TV networks experimented on this. I remember TV Patrol having a citiz
en's report as with CNNs I-news.
There are untapped talent in the Filipino blogosphere worth investing, I believ
e. If there are citizen journalism site in the Philippines? I'm not quite sure
but there might be a few but are not sustained but vox populi is a good example
of citizen journalism in progress. :)
info dessimination has come a long way fr radio to tv now we have the cyber/int
ernet,call centers,telecom networks,mobilephones,people networking & perhap
s more.
Consumer/user generated media (CGM) like blogs, discussion boards, review/ratin
g sites, social network sites, etc., are powerful web 2.0 tools. Some are stil
l in 1.0 mode but investments on this new level 2 initiatives are obviously inc
reasing. รข People now can quickly write and air their views..
Share your opinion. Thanks.
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