https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/ Global forum 3 - 4 May, London en Copyright 2008 Fri, 05 May 2006 10:26:58 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss One overwhelming issue that emerged out of the We Media event was the continuing divide between the mainstream media and the blogging community. The two are talking to each other, but all too often this conversation descends into a war... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/putting_the_we_back_into_media.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/putting_the_we_back_into_media.html Fri, 05 May 2006 10:26:58 +0000 It's been a couple of long days, with a lot of ideas flying around the room, but the We Media global forum is coming to an end. And it is ending with an appeal for ideas to change the world... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/call_to_action.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/call_to_action.html Thu, 04 May 2006 17:21:22 +0000 As the We Media comes to an end, the discussions have got round to the issue that is bothering most media organisations - how can we make money in this new digital world? Carolyn McCall of The Guardian highlighted the... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/money_talks.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/money_talks.html Thu, 04 May 2006 15:55:21 +0000 Today has been a very different conference to the event hosted by the BBC on Wednesday. Part of this is because of the different venue. Mostly it is because we are hearing from voices from Asia, the sub-continent, the Middle... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/the_world_talks_back_1.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/the_world_talks_back_1.html Thu, 04 May 2006 15:04:45 +0000 We're into big idea territory with a live satellite link-up with Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute, in New York. After some hiccups in getting the connection up and running, Sachs laid out his vision - ending extreme poverty,... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/reimagineering_news_from_afric.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/reimagineering_news_from_afric.html Thu, 04 May 2006 14:20:43 +0000 The discussions on the media in the Middle East is highlighting the gulf between the news organisations in the West and those in the Arab world. Rami Khouri of the Lebanon Daily Star newspaper set the tone. He argued there... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/news_and_distrust_in_the_arab.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/news_and_distrust_in_the_arab.html Thu, 04 May 2006 13:29:43 +0000 Before the conference broke up for a rather good lunch, one theme was emerging from the contributions from China and India. What is becoming apparent is how the media in these countries is starting from a very different point to... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/digital_race.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/digital_race.html Thu, 04 May 2006 13:02:59 +0000 Much of the talk about new media and Web 2.0 by its very nature focuses on the internet. But as is becoming apparent in the We Media discussions, we should not overlook the power of the mobile phone,. This is... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/expression_via_texting.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/expression_via_texting.html Thu, 04 May 2006 11:36:27 +0000 One of the issues that many in the media business have been debating is the success of OhMyNews in South Korea. The pioneering South Korean "citizen journalism" website has some 33,000 citizen reporters, though it still uses professional editors too. https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/a_model_for_citizen_journalism.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/a_model_for_citizen_journalism.html Thu, 04 May 2006 10:49:56 +0000 The session on China threw up a real gulf between the view of the internet from inside China and those developing new services, and how the situation is portrayed in the Western media. On a satellite link-up from Hong Kong,... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/a_free_net_in_china.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/a_free_net_in_china.html Thu, 04 May 2006 10:40:50 +0000 The conference has been opened up to the world, starting off with a focus on Asia and in particular China. While much of the coverage in the Western media is about political dissidents using the web to spread their message,... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/the_power_of_the_mobile.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/the_power_of_the_mobile.html Thu, 04 May 2006 09:56:13 +0000 Kicking off the We Media conference, Reuters CEO Tom Glocer raised an interesting point about participation in the political process. He compared how people are embracing blogs, photo-sharing sites and other web technologies as a way of making themselves heard,... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/making_yourself_heard.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/making_yourself_heard.html Thu, 04 May 2006 09:33:47 +0000 The We Media delegates are filing their way to London's Docklands for day two of the conference at Reuters. The place has a very different feel to the BBC. While yesterday was at a studio usually home to Top of... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/day_two_at_reuters.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/day_two_at_reuters.html Thu, 04 May 2006 08:31:59 +0000 End of a long day with a lot of talk about the future of the media, the question of trust and the role of bloggers. On Thursday it all starts up again, this time at Reuters headquarters in London's Docklands.... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/global_talk.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/global_talk.html Wed, 03 May 2006 21:08:51 +0000 If you want to get a taste of participatory media, have a listen to World Have Your Say. The BBC programme is coming live from the We Media conference. They are trying to get a sense of what people across... https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/we_the_world.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/we_the_world.html Wed, 03 May 2006 17:23:33 +0000