http://citizenmediawatch.com Keeping an eye on Tom, Dick and Harry being very creative Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:31:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interesting piece over at TechnoKimchi on the protests against president Lee Myung-Bak in Korea and how it all came about through citizen journalism: How did it happen so quickly? This is the fun part. Lee is a very conservative guy, who still believes in "control". What he did was, when numerous ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/06/27/citizen-journalisms-big-impact-in-korea/ Going through old posts on Beta Alfa's blog, I found a post about YouTube's new Citizen Media channel, Citizen News. They've appointed a News Manager and aim to collect news from citizen sources in one place, as a citizen news and interviews channel. News Manager Olivia M calls out: So here's ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/06/10/youtube-gets-new-citizen-media-channel-and-beef-over-censorship/ Excellent clip from WAN in Gothenburg, provided by Medievärlden. Pierre Haski of Rue89.com on how to take your readers seriously and get good quality comments and a good debate. More at Medievärlden (in Swedish). http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/06/10/why-journalists-should-be-monitoring-and-responding-to-reader-comments/ Are you a journalist who blog? Check out the Online Journalism Blog's new survey and help Paul Bradshaw get info for a book chapter he's writing on the subject of journalists blogging. http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/05/21/survey-for-blogging-journalists/ Annika Lidne compares Facebook to AOL, the walled garden approach. - The walled garden didn't work for them, and it won't work for Facebook either. It's a mindset that says "we're not really interested in our users". She also critisizes the lack of data portability, that you cannot extract your ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/03/14/annika-lidne-the-walled-garden-approach-wont-work-for-facebook/ Jonas Nyvang from MySpace talked a bit about MySpace apps and Open Social. - We give 100% of the revenues you can get from the app you develop. We've been pioneering the monetization of social networking. Like when Arna and I met him in september last year, he doesn't want to see ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/03/14/myspace-weve-been-pioneering-the-monetization-of-social-networking/ The usual crowd has shown up for Facebook Garage Stockholm, the third event organized by Nustart in Stockholm. The focus is on Facebook, but also social networking sites in general and their development. The first speaker is from MySpace, for instance. - This is an audience-generated event, says moderator Beata Wickbom. ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/03/14/at-facebook-garage-stockholm/ A lot of comments have been made to Paul Bradshaw's (read his blog too) excellent list of changes for journalists in the upcoming ten years in the Press Gazette lately. In short, the list is made up of: 1. From a lecture to a conversation 2. The rise of the amateur 3. Everyone’s ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/03/12/personal-transparency-the-eleventh-change-for-journalists/ The Canadian defence department has sent a memo to soldiers, urging them not to use social networking sites like Facebook, writes CBC News. The reason is said to be that terror organizations like Al Qaeda are monitoring these sites and any details revealed by soldiers might compromise missions and potentially ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/03/03/transparency-not-for-canadian-soldiers/ The results of a recent We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows that two thirds of the American respondents think that traditional journalism is "out of touch" with its audience and its needs. This despite the fact that almost half of the respondents use the internet as their primary news source. There ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/03/02/67-percent-of-americans-think-journalism-is-out-of-touch/ Living in Sweden, and especially taking an active part in covering and exploring social and citizen media, I take many things for granted. One is the right to take photos in public areas, another to report about what I see and opinions and thoughts I have on any thinkable subject. ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/03/02/hard-times-for-bloggers-and-journalists-in-sri-lanka/ Happy new year, all! I'll start this year off with a 2 month vacation from this blog. I'll be travelling during January and Febuary, and post updates in The Many Faces of L., but won't do much here at Citizen Media Watch. See you in March, when I start my ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/01/02/new-year-and-blog-vacation/ I once more welcome Gitta Wilén as a guest contributor here at Citizen Media Watch. This time she has interviewed a hyperlocal blogger, Alf Fransson. Alf Fransson, 69, is blogging about a small area 1.3 Swedish miles from Askersund in Närke, Sweden. By putting up his own placards at the local ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/12/23/hyper-local-asbro/ Per Mosseby of Pixbox says at Hubbub 07 he thinks the developing countries is where the mobile revolution will truly happen. When mobile applications have been developed, the laptop is better than the cellphone in all aspects of the services that were going mobile. That is however changing, Per Mosseby says. - ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/24/per-mosseby-the-mobile-revolution-is-happening-but-not-here/ Niklas Tyllström is at Hubbub 07 to talk about Green hat people, a pretty cool real life game where you get instructions in your cellphone and then go places in your city to find clues and answer questions. - We were lacking unpredictability in our lives. We came up with a ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/24/green-hat-people-brings-gaming-to-real-life/ David Haddad of Spontu works with social networking on the mobile. Since Hubbub is all about convergence, he focuses on the convergence of positioning, connectivity and powerful mobiles. He shares some lessons learnt: Be intellectually honest about your motivation. Solve a real human social inefficiency. Choose a technology that works, with an eye ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/24/david-haddad-on-the-convergence-of-positioning-technologies/ My photos from Hubbub end up here. And here's the Hubbub Flickr photo pool where everyone's sending photos. http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/24/hubbub-in-photos/ Update 2007-11-24: Four more speakers added! Next Saturday afternoon the nice guys and gals at Nustart will host another conference at Nymble at KTH in Stockholm. The last one, Hej!2007, was a great success, and I am looking forward to Saturday when Hubbub07 takes place. The focus this time is on ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/18/hubbub-a-half-day-conference-with-a-mobile-focus/ Social media is supposed to make it easier for everyone to contribute and to express oneself. But a lot of people are still shut out. - Blog services are not accessible for everyone, says Stefan Johansson of Funka Nu. He talks about accessibility at the Morgondagens webbplatser conference in Kista ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/07/let-blind-people-and-people-with-adhd-test-run-your-site/ A Swedish version of the Norwegian community site Nettby is to be launched shortly. Nettby is a success story with over 500 000 members. Now there's a call for Swedish name suggestions at the site. Ironically, mostly Norwegians will name the Swedish site. Here's what the post on Nettby says (my ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/03/swedish-version-of-nettby-to-launch-but-what-will-it-be-called/ I'm trying to get a grasp of the Swedish blogosphere, to answer the simple question of how many Swedish blogs there are. Simple, that is, until you start digging into it. Then you realize immediately that you have to limit yourself to Swedish blogs on Swedish blog services, as there ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/03/how-many-swedish-blogs-are-there/ John Hargelid, producer at EA Digital Illusions, talks at Daytona Sessions about ads and the social aspects of gaming. They are connecting their games with websites. He mentions the game Skate. It has a video editing function, so that you can record your skate tricks, and upload them to a ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/01/john-hargelid-on-ads-and-social-aspects-of-gaming/ Qualitative analytics of blogs is Mattias Östmar's focus in his startup PRfect analys, which he presented at Daytona Sessions. - I like methods of measurement, and I like to define things, he says with a smile. - Marketing used to be about mass communication. It won't die out, but targeted ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/01/personality-analysis-as-a-way-of-reaching-people-more-effectively/ Stefan Waldeck, Yahoo, talks about mobile marketing and search marketing at Daytona Sessions. Self expression, social networks, and new technologies are the new trends. In the cellphone all of this comes together, he says. - The cellphone is with you 100% of your waking hours. Plus it has a higher penetration ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/01/stefan-waldeck-on-yahoos-mobile-services/ Joakim Jardenberg of Mindpark says that papers are dying. All trends show that. The last paper will be publised in April 2040 according to Philip Meyer. In Helsingborg newspaper reading has gone from 90 to 60 percent in only a few years. We compensate by creating new channels, such as the ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/01/joakim-jardenberg-on-dying-papers-and-the-future-of-journalism/ Henrik Torstensson is talking at Daytona Sessions about where the internet five years from now. - Predicting the future is practically impossible, he says. But I'll build upon experiences. He has five key points. Access. When everyone's got broadband the possibilities of community building expand. Ahead, a similar development will happen in ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/01/henrik-torstensson-on-five-factors-that-will-shape-the-future/ Daytona Sessions are about to begin at Debaser Medis in Stockholm. The usual crowd has showed up, plus some additional people and some I haven't seen in a long time. Henrik Torstensson is the first speaker of the day. The jaiku backchannel is active. Most my posts will be there. http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/01/daytona-sessions/ Today Google will announce its new web API for social networking sites called Open Social. I've read two very different takes from Marc Andreessen and Dave Winer. I am leaning a bit more towards Andreessen, but it's way too early to tell. Also he is already a Google partner in this, ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/11/01/two-different-takes-on-open-social/ Very interesting statistics today from Johan Myrberger at The Killer Attitude. He has taken Jeff Pulver's statistics one step further, with detailed graphs. Sweden has close to one million Facebook users. One million. In a country of nine million people. That is pretty amazing. http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/10/31/close-to-one-million-facebook-users-in-sweden/ Finally Aftonbladet has started to automatically link to blog posts linking to its articles. Certainly not first in Sweden, but in my opinion one step further than the others. Big disclaimer: I am very much involved in this, so expect some bias. Swedish company Primelabs has provided MSM with blog link ... http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2007/10/24/aftonbladetses-articles-link-to-blog-posts/