Comments on: The New Broadcasting http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/ The change is coming Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:01:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3-9909 hourly 1 By: dharmasphere » Grassroots Journalism & The London Bombs http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-195 dharmasphere » Grassroots Journalism & The London Bombs Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:14:18 +0000 http://www.dharmasphere.org/2005/05/06/the-future-of-journalism/#comment-195 [...] News and images of the Asian tsunami, the US elections, Live8 & G8 have all spread quickly through grassroots journalism. At a time when media corporations are merging and swelling like never before, this New Broadcasting - distributed and empowered and at a wireless hub near you - could be just the answer we need. [...] [...] News and images of the Asian tsunami, the US elections, Live8 & G8 have all spread quickly through grassroots journalism. At a time when media corporations are merging and swelling like never before, this New Broadcasting - distributed and empowered and at a wireless hub near you - could be just the answer we need. [...]

]]> By: dharmasphere » Video Blogging Tools http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-45 dharmasphere » Video Blogging Tools Fri, 20 May 2005 14:35:32 +0000 http://www.dharmasphere.org/2005/05/06/the-future-of-journalism/#comment-45 [...] Previously (here and here), the subject of creating and broadcasting videos came up. [...] [...] Previously (here and here), the subject of creating and broadcasting videos came up. [...]

]]> By: Prem http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Prem Fri, 13 May 2005 14:17:09 +0000 http://www.dharmasphere.org/2005/05/06/the-future-of-journalism/#comment-43 I've just read a <a href="http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/" rel="nofollow">great article on Web 2.0</a>, "<em>a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into 'microcontent' units that can be distributed over dozens of domains</em>". In this new approch, content is provided from the entire Web and then "remixed" on a website in a unique way. So the website becomes less of a single destination for a web user to visit, and more of a portal from which the user can access and interact with the content that is relevant to them. From the article's opening paragraph: <blockquote>In Web 1.0, a small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information by going directly to the source: Adobe.com for graphic design issues, Microsoft.com for Windows issues, and CNN.com for news. Over time, however, more and more people started writing content in addition to reading it. This had an interesting effect—suddenly there was too much information to keep up with!</blockquote> Enter Web 2.0... And, while we're on the subject, I've also just heard 2 excellent audio recordings of <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/27">Tim O'Reilly</a>, founder of <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/">O'Reilly Books</a>, in which he talks about the <em>paradigm shift</em> in web technology: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail50.html">The Software Paradigm Shift</a> (recorded in 2003)</li> <li><a href="http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail446.html">News from the Future</a> (recorded in March 2005)</li> </ul> I’ve just read a great article on Web 2.0, “a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into ‘microcontent’ units that can be distributed over dozens of domains“.

In this new approch, content is provided from the entire Web and then “remixed” on a website in a unique way. So the website becomes less of a single destination for a web user to visit, and more of a portal from which the user can access and interact with the content that is relevant to them.

From the article’s opening paragraph:

In Web 1.0, a small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information by going directly to the source: Adobe.com for graphic design issues, Microsoft.com for Windows issues, and CNN.com for news.

Over time, however, more and more people started writing content in addition to reading it. This had an interesting effect—suddenly there was too much information to keep up with!

Enter Web 2.0…

And, while we’re on the subject, I’ve also just heard 2 excellent audio recordings of Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Books, in which he talks about the paradigm shift in web technology:

]]> By: Prem http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Prem Wed, 11 May 2005 14:33:45 +0000 http://www.dharmasphere.org/2005/05/06/the-future-of-journalism/#comment-42 The BBC has just opened its doors to web users who want to churn up and remix the contents of the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk">BBC's news pages</a>, on its new site, <a href="http://backstage.bbc.co.uk" rel="nofollow">backstage.bbc.co.uk</a>. Blogger <a href="http://www.whitelabel.org">WhiteLabel</a> had previously made <a href="http://wikiproxy.whitelabel.org" rel="nofollow">a portal</a> that sucked in the BBC's new content and allowed bloggers to add their own content, links and comments directly onto the page. The BBC has now enacted a similar idea on their own site. As <a href="http://www.whitelabel.org/2005/05/11/backstagebbccouk-launches/">WhiteLabel says</a>: <blockquote>"This could be the point at which the BBC stops being a merely a broadcaster, stops being merely a publisher, and starts being a tool and a resource for all of us to use. This could also be the point at which the BBC starts to differentiate itself from the commercial alternatives, by being a proper public service, rather than a publicly funded competitor."</blockquote> The BBC has just opened its doors to web users who want to churn up and remix the contents of the BBC’s news pages, on its new site, backstage.bbc.co.uk.

Blogger WhiteLabel had previously made a portal that sucked in the BBC’s new content and allowed bloggers to add their own content, links and comments directly onto the page. The BBC has now enacted a similar idea on their own site.

As WhiteLabel says:

“This could be the point at which the BBC stops being a merely a broadcaster, stops being merely a publisher, and starts being a tool and a resource for all of us to use.

This could also be the point at which the BBC starts to differentiate itself from the commercial alternatives, by being a proper public service, rather than a publicly funded competitor.”

]]> By: Roshnii http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Roshnii Wed, 11 May 2005 12:57:34 +0000 http://www.dharmasphere.org/2005/05/06/the-future-of-journalism/#comment-40 Why do we wish to communicate and to broadcast? When we have eye opening, mind expanding experiences we want to share them and for others to benefit from them. Why do we wish to communicate and to broadcast?

When we have eye opening, mind expanding experiences we want to share them and for others to benefit from them.

]]> By: Prem http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Prem Tue, 10 May 2005 17:43:52 +0000 http://www.dharmasphere.org/2005/05/06/the-future-of-journalism/#comment-37 I am only half-understanding it myself these days. Writing down all these thoughts helps me reinforce my understanding. It's funny, I was kind of peripherally aware of all these goings on in the <em>blogosphere</em> for some time, but never found it relevant enough to delve into. Only now, I'm just getting aware of the potential and the technology and the people out there who have been on to it for a few years now. I feel I have a lot of catching up to do. I am only half-understanding it myself these days. Writing down all these thoughts helps me reinforce my understanding.

It’s funny, I was kind of peripherally aware of all these goings on in the blogosphere for some time, but never found it relevant enough to delve into.

Only now, I’m just getting aware of the potential and the technology and the people out there who have been on to it for a few years now. I feel I have a lot of catching up to do.

]]> By: Cori Schlegel http://dharmasphere.org/2005/05/10/the-new-broadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Cori Schlegel Tue, 10 May 2005 17:24:51 +0000 http://www.dharmasphere.org/2005/05/06/the-future-of-journalism/#comment-36 Indeed, these are the very ideas that I understood intellectually but not at all viscerally, until I saw your earlier post and started to internalize it. Indeed, these are the very ideas that I understood intellectually but not at all viscerally, until I saw your earlier post and started to internalize it.

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