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.
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
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.
number of social bookmarking sites for news have emerged. CommonMedia, my network, launched CommonTimes, a social bookmarking site dedicated to news and the blogosphere
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.