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	<description>Keeping an eye on Tom, Dick and Harry being very creative</description>
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		<title>Thinkpublic – designing with people</title>
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Ella Britton at Geek Girl Meetup #2. Photo: Lotta Holmström.
Thinkpublic are an agency focused on using design to improve service experiences in the public sector. Their methods include social anthropological research, design, film and workshops.
Ella Britton presented their work at the Geek Girl Meetup #2 in Stockholm, Sweden, 24–25 October 2009.
Ella Britton talked about social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/11/12/thinkpublic-designing-with-people/</link>
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		<title>Stowe Boyd, really realtime disruptive media, and challenges for future journalists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I am at the Really Realtime Disruptive Media conference, which is also streamed live at http://livestream.com/disruptivemedia. I&#8217;ve just listened to Stowe Boyd and would like to share some of it, though liveblogging is becoming more and more tricky when everyone&#8217;s got access to the event in real time. I think this development is good, since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/10/20/stowe-boyd-really-realtime-disruptive-media-and-challenges-for-future-journalists/</link>
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		<title>The Guardian to contract bloggers for local news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Swedish national papers have moved away from local news initiatives, as local advertising markets are not ready to support costly coverage, there are examples in other countries of how to build coverage by collaborating with local bloggers. The most recent comes from the Guardian, who are looking to contract bloggers in Leeds, Cardiff and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/10/12/the-guardian-to-contract-bloggers-for-local-news/</link>
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		<title>Brand, link and communicate around your content, and you can set it free (SSWC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are at Tjärö, a small island in the Blekinge archipelago, for a weekend camp for social media folks &#8211; Sweden Social Web Camp. The event is an unconference, with the participants setting the agenda and signing up to hold sessions. 
At one of the opening sessions, sydsvenskan.se gatered a group of journalists, bloggers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/08/22/brand-link-and-communicate-around-your-content-and-you-can-set-it-free-sswc/</link>
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		<title>Citizen Media Watch teaching at Fojo – Project Belarus</title>
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During Januari and Februari this year, I did some teaching at Fojo, the Institute for Further Education of Journalists. I talked about online journalism and how to make good SEO for an article, at the web journalist seminar for Belarusian journalists and students from the University of journalism in Minsk. Some weeks later I managed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/04/13/citizen-media-watch-teaching-at-fojo-%e2%80%93-project-belarus/</link>
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		<title>Twitter as news source, and the unthinkable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is becoming the one stop place for relevant reading these days, especially since I&#8217;m way behind with my Google Reader feeds. Today&#8217;s most retweeted post, and a required read, must be Clay Shirky&#8217;s long and insightful look at past media revolutions and the one we&#8217;re going through right now, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.
There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/03/14/twitter-as-news-source-and-the-unthinkable/</link>
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		<title>Interesting times ahead at the tabloids in Sweden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Thomas Mattsson was appointed editor-in-chief of Expressen, the 2nd largest tabloid/evening paper in Sweden. Great news, as Mattsson has made a name for himself being web2.0 friendly, listening to people and using social media to connect with his users/readers. Very exciting, and a very good choice.
Second great news is the response from the largest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/03/11/interesting-times-ahead-at-the-tabloids-in-sweden/</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneurial journalism and the future roles of journalists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading Ellyn Angelotti&#8217;s summary of the discussions during the recent Journalism That Matters conference, wishing I had been there. It is written in an optimistic tone, and the focus is on journalistic entrepreneurship.
Several journalists said they wonder if their news organizations are still too dependent on their old business models to create innovative journalism. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/03/11/entrepreneurial-journalism-and-the-future-roles-of-journalists/</link>
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		<title>The BBC to educate the public in journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now everyone can take part of the online journalistic training and resources the BBC has available to its journalists. The BBC blog dot life announces a virtual college of journalism:
&#8220;One of the most important things that we need to think about and do is teach journalism to the next generation and to the new leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/03/09/the-bbc-to-educate-the-public-in-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Scoopt&#8217;s closing and the end of dedicated citjourn agencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Citizen journalism photo agency Scoopt has shut down. Getty Images, which purchased the site two years back, are letting it go.

In an interview in the British Journal of Photography, PJP, Getty spokesperson Alison Crombie explains that they want to focus on their core editorial business.
- People are now more visually educated, there is more awareness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/02/05/scoopts-closing-and-the-end-of-dedicated-citjourn-agencies/</link>
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		<title>Aftonbladet&#8217;s blog award gathered the Swedish blogosphere</title>
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All the winners of the Great Blog Award 2009.
Yesterday evening, as we talked about in our bambusing from the event, the Great Blog Award (&#8220;Stora Bloggpriset&#8221;) gala was held at Nalen in Stockholm. It&#8217;s a new award instituted by Aftonbladet and Bloggportalen (owned by Aftonbladet, so basically it&#8217;s an Aftonbladet award).

Talking about the FRA blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/02/03/aftonbladets-blog-award-gathered-the-swedish-blogosphere/</link>
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		<title>Major migration of the Swedish microblogosphere to Bloggy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bloggy is the new microblogging site of choice for Swedes. In a short time the site has gained about 3 000 users and continues to grow.
- I was thinking: Can I do this better?, says Jonas Lejon, the man behind the service, to Citizen Media Watch.
In Sweden Jaiku has to a large extent been the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/01/28/major-migration-of-the-swedish-microblogosphere-to-bloggy/</link>
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		<title>listentoblogs.com at 24 hour business camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 90 internet entrepreneurs gathered at 24 hour business camp. The task was to create a web/mobile based service, during 24 hours. Starting Thursday at noon, ending Friday at noon. 
Team Eric Wahlforss (co-founder Sound Cloud), Henric Berggren (Sound Cloud), and David Kjelkerud, student at KTH, worked on an application they call  listentoblogs.com.

Henrik Berggren [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/01/23/listentoblogscom-at-24-hour-business-camp/</link>
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		<title>Twingly offers microblog search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twingly expands its search engine with a brand new microblog search tool. They&#8217;ve been working on it for six months and today it was released.
In the Twingly blog, they write:
When we last summer started to see the microblogging-hype we felt that a search dedicated to microblogs would be a quite natural development for us. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/01/20/twingly-offers-microblog-search/</link>
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		<title>Citizen media rules! $5 million to local journalism projects in the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a truly interesting trend going on in the US, supported by the Knight Foundation. Local media gets the money and support. An important movement in days of economical depression.
Read Write Web writes:
”While the Knight Foundation&#8217;s endowment has been hurt by the current economic climate, the Foundation is still committed to granting a total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2009/01/18/citizen-media-rules-5-million-to-local-journalism-projects-in-the-us/</link>
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		<title>Teo Härén about: Invite, collaborate and share – the money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The twin brothers Fredrik and Teo Härén have been writing books about creativity for many years now. Five books so far and more coming up. This is a conversation with Teo about inviting, collaborating, sharing ideas and the money. 
 
Fredrik och Teo started the idea book project about eight, nine years ago. They wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/12/29/teo-haren-about-invite-collaborate-and-share-the-money/</link>
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		<title>Bivings report: increase in user-generated content on US media sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Bivings report was released yesterday. It shows an increase in the number of US news sites offering their users to participate. From the findings:
# Newspapers are experimenting with user generated content.  The study found that 58 percent of newspapers allowed for user generated photos, while 18 percent accepted video and 15 percent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/12/20/bivings-report-increase-in-user-generated-content-on-us-media-sites/</link>
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		<title>News Mixer &#8211; a great new tool for news discussion and fact-checking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recently released test site for News Mixer is a tool for discussing news and posting your own. The focus is on Eastern Iowa &#8211; the project is a collaboration between the Medill School for Journalism&#8217;s Crunchberry project and Gazette Communications in Cedar Rapids. So it&#8217;s not &#8211; atleast not yet &#8211; a global or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/12/20/news-mixer-a-great-new-tool-for-news-discussion-and-fact-checking/</link>
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		<title>Sandra Jakob at HD.se – It&#8217;s not laziness, it is fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a conversation with Sandra Jakob about online journalism, transparency, the future way of publishing on the web and the need to inspire colleagues to explore and to use the internet.
Sandra Jakob works as an online journalist at hd.se. Helsingborgs Dagblad is a daily newspaper situated in the south of Sweden, in Helsingborg.

CMW: What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/12/09/sandra-jakob-at-hdse-its-not-laziness-it-is-fear/</link>
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		<title>Pownce shutting down, becoming part of Six Apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microblogging/microstreaming service Pownce announced yesterday that they are closing down the service and becoming part of Six Apart. 
Leah Culver writes:
We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/12/02/pownce-shutting-down-becoming-part-of-six-apart/</link>
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		<title>Good use of microblogging in journalism &#8211; give us more examples!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether status updates on social media sites should count as microblogging or not, the walled garden that Facebook still is to a large extent, makes status updates if not useless from a publishing perspective then atleast difficult to accommodate as they are on an open to all site. The same goes for users whose updates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/28/good-use-of-microblogging-in-journalism-give-us-more-examples/</link>
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		<title>Are status updates on social media sites a form of microblogging?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microblogging services like Jaiku or Twitter, which recently passed its 1 billionth tweet (via Media Culpa), are immensely popular, and some even say they&#8217;ll completely take over from regular blogs. 
But what is the definition of a microblogging service? Does it need to be focused/dedicated to microblogging, or can it be a social media site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/27/are-status-updates-on-social-media-sites-a-form-of-microblogging/</link>
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		<title>Jeff Jarvis on the future of news: Investigative journalism will survive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking about the future of news, don&#8217;t miss Jeff Jarvis&#8216; long post on this topic over at BuzzMachine. Its focus is on local news but there&#8217;s general ideas to apply on national/topic news as well. Some great stuff! And I like his focus on community/network driven news.
Jarvis doesn&#8217;t believe investigative journalism will suffer. He writes:
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/24/jeff-jarvis-on-the-future-of-news-investigative-journalism-will-survive/</link>
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		<title>Dan Gillmor&#8217;s new book &#8211; a guide for news consumers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who can we trust in an age when anyone can be a journalist? How do we know? As citizen journalism has taken quite a bit of beef lately, especially after the Steve Jobs supposed heart attack debacle, Dan Gillmor&#8217;s new book project couldn&#8217;t come at a better time.
He is writing a book to educate not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/20/dan-gillmors-new-book-a-guide-for-news-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Will there be a dark period for journalism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will we see the collapse of journalism as papers fail to take the step over from dead wood publishing? Or are we at a dawn of a smarter news industry? Opinions vary, and we take a look at what some are saying right now.
At SIME, Joi Ito expressed concerns that professional journalism journalism may perish.
- [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/18/will-there-be-a-dark-period-for-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Tomas and Kristin podcasting What&#8217;s Next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a Swede and interested in what&#8217;s happening on the web and in new media, I&#8217;m sure you can&#8217;t have missed the podcast What&#8217;s Next. With a background in radio journalism, hosts Tomas Wennström and Kristin Heinonen are doing a great job keeping us updated about news in this field. They are also very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/16/tomas-and-kristin-podcasting-whats-next/</link>
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		<title>Mia Rose: Portray yourself with your true colours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Mia Rose is a YouTube-made star, a true child of the new music industry. She&#8217;s the most subscribed to and most viewed artist in Great Britain on YouTube, and her story started with a cheap camera and some great talent. 
Urged on by her friends, she started to upload video clips of herself. People [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/15/mia-rose/</link>
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		<title>SIME 2008 in pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s our Flickr set for SIME 2008. It&#8217;s 125 photos, and they&#8217;re all licensed with Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial, so bloggers are welcome to use them. Just remember to credit us with a link.
Among other things today, we met with YouTube star Mia Rose. Check back for the video clip tomorrow.
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		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/14/sime-2008-in-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Joi Ito: Don&#8217;t sign bad licenses</title>
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Citizen Media Watch met with blogging veteran, super-entrepreneur and CEO of Creative Commons Joi Ito during the SIME conference in Stockholm. He told us about how he (possibly) made the New York Times change their contract for freelance material, and he sent a message to anyone wanting to make it as a semi-pro or pro [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/13/joi-ito-made-the-new-york-times-change-their-contract/</link>
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		<title>SIME preparations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week it&#8217;s the yearly SIME (Scandinavian Interactive Media Event) conference here in Stockholm. Previous years I&#8217;ve found it remarkable that a conference about &#8220;digital opportunities, technology, communication and entrepreneurship&#8221; haven&#8217;t given much thought to the audience&#8217;s want to communicate and use these &#8220;digital opportunities&#8221; during the conference itself (no or badly working wifi, no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://citizenmediawatch.com/index.php/2008/11/11/sime-preparations/</link>
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