Semantic Web A mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processed by machines, on a global scale. The Semantic Web extends the Web by using standards, markup languages, and related processing tools.
number of social bookmarking sites for news have emerged. CommonMedia, my network, launched CommonTimes, a social bookmarking site dedicated to news and the blogosphere
Media companies are of two minds about Internet video-sharing site YouTube, which rocketed to fame by letting users share homemade videos along with copyrighted clips from movies, TV shows and music videos.
Citizen media sites focused on tiny communities give journalists a role as content shepherds, whipping the chaos of reader-generated content into a manageable morass.
This dream of a global photo album, compiled in real time by amateur and professional shooters, hasn't quite materialized, but photo-sharing services such as Flickr and Buzznet are giving us glimpses into that future.
Radio, television and newspapers have struggled to figure out business models and how to stay relevant in the world of the 24-hour news cycle and increasingly accessible technology through e-mail, blogs, podcasts, photos and video.
July 3, 2006. As local paper sales fall sharply in the US - and in the UK for that matter - and news organisations cut back on staff and coverage, a Chicago-based experiment in grassroots citizen journalism may be providing the model for how local news i