Category: The Media

The Media Center

The Media Center – The Media Center @ API
From the site:
The Media Center is a nonprofit think tank committed to building a better-informed society in a connected world.
The Media Center Matrix – Designed to evaluate, implement and map media strategies
Make Way for The Mobiles – Mobility becomes a cultural imperative
We Media – Audiences shape the future of news and information
Convergence Tracker – Monitor who’s doing what in local cross-media partnerships

When everyone is media, no one is

Scripting News: 2/2/2005
Dave writes:
When everyone is media, no one is 
1. Everything these days is media.
2. All media is technology and vice versa. The convergence everyone was buzzing about in the early 90s has happened. It’s behind us. There is no separation between media and technology.
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I disagree:
The telephone company isn’t media now and people who call each other aren’t producing media (although an argument can be made). Perhaps he is just arguing an extreme.

BBC to do local interactive TV news..

informitv – Interactive TV – News – BBC to pilot local interactive television news service
From the site:
The aim is to create a new model of local television, based on news and information, in partnership with the community, working with the public, private and voluntary sectors to build and sustain the service.

Can’t wait to see what they do…

ZeD – Open Source Television


ZeD – Open Source Television
A very interesting television project being done by the CBC. Damn, I wish television in the US was as risk taking as it is in Canada and the UK.
From the site:
CBC Television’s late-night TV project, ZeD. ZeD is a launch pad for ideas, individuals and creative expression. It’s a blend of short films, micro-cinema, experimental works, performances by bands, poets, comics and choreographers, and – always – contributions from the audience.

Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny

Ryanne’s Video Blog
Ryanne’s Video Blog has an interesting interview piece regarding the recent issues that have come up between the show and the Department of Education over an episode that included a segment with a that has same sex parents. This could perhaps be the pivitol piece that kicks citizen journalism via video blogs into high gear.

Check it out: Dept of Ed vs. Buster the Bunny