18 janeiro 2006

VITAMEDIAS

Tendências:
Media Changes News Consumption Culture: The advent of the multimedia era has broken down the exclusivity of the news reporting market, long dominated by terrestrial broadcasters and newspapers.
Now, such outlets as portals, cable television and online newspapers are taking up the role of news providers. Individual bloggers and companies are also joining the trend, using their homepages as a means to distribute information. Even [Korea's] President Roh Moo-hyun this week opened a blog on the nation?s three separate Internet portals. The presidential spokesman said the blog would provide news reports on the office ``directly?? to Internet users.
[o que dá razão a Franciso Balsemão: "As empresas tradiconais de comunicação social têm de ser ousadas para chegarem ao mundo e ao tempo do online."]

Elmundo.es pone contenidos y los lectores, sus ideas: Elmundo.es reta ahora a los lectores a que jueguen, experimenten y creen nuevas aplicaciones para sus contenidos RSS, que están liberados, no requieren suscripción y son gratuitos. El desafío se llama 'Ideas'.


Swarm Intelligence Journalism
: The biggest question is how independent each blogger is versus how they're influenced by their set of trusted information sources. [...]
Gathering this type of metadata will help me edit a film that will be much richer in meaning because I'll be using the insights of many different participants who have contributed their perspectives -- Call it Swarm Intelligence Journalism.
[BTW, The Echo Chamber Project is an open source, investigative documentary about the how the television news media became an uncritical echo chamber to the Executive Branch leading up to the war in Iraq.]
[obrigado Vitorino]