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 Canada.
Uses for the money will include ways to reward people that upload stories or images, 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 breaks out in Google’s cafeteria and media can’t get their fast enough we can identify people on the scene already and get their content,” Brody said.
Hmm, this makes me wonder: is there a citizen journalism site in the Philippines 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 invest money in or purchase outright? 
I’m just curious, but hey, you never know
August 8th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
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August 7th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Consumer/user generated media (CGM) like blogs, discussion boards, review/rating sites, social network sites, etc., are powerful web 2.0 tools. Some are still in 1.0 mode but investments on this new level 2 initiatives are obviously increasing. – People now can quickly write and air their views..
Share your opinion. Thanks.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
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August 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 pm
info dessimination has come a long way fr radio to tv now we have the cyber/internet,call centers,telecom networks,mobilephones,people networking & perhaps more.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
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