user generated content

Media140: The Unethical Web Members Public

Warning: Liveblogging – error, omission and appalling grammar likely Claire Wardle Claire was an academic in Cardiff – deputy ethics officer – lots of conflict over journalist wanting to do illegal things in a “good cause”. On to the BBC College – where there were fights about contacting people and using materials from the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ethics

Twitpic's attempted copyright grab? Members Public

Twitpic becomes the latest in a long line of web companies playing fast and loose with their users’ copyright: > The first part highlighted is a clause seemingly denying anyone who uploads a picture to Twitpic the media exploitation rights for that picture; it specifically targets those businesses who might

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
copyright

The new trusted sources Members Public

Really nice summation of the problem with the “people will always turn to trusted brands” idea [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2010-10-29/the-future-of-publishing-like-minds] that many people in traditional media companies cling to as their hope for survival: > The community gathers around its self-created experts, and with little cost structure

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
branding

news:rewired - Involving Users in Projects #newsrw Members Public

Warning: Liveblogging – errors and typos likely iVillage – Lulu Phongmany: Been around for 10 years without really talking to the community about what they wanted. Very different issues drive success in message boards as opposed to content. Content seems tool-based, forums more around mutual support issues. Food site relaunch: Editors and

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
citizen journalism

news:rewired:reviewed Members Public

It has been a funny old week, as the lazy, journalistic cliché goes. This time last week, I was telling myself for the third afternoon in a row that I’d do my slides for news:rewired [http://www.newsrewired.com/] tomorrow, and now they’ve spent the best part

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
bloggers

news:rewired Crowdsourcing Members Public

So, onto other people’s panels, and I’ve plumped for the crowd-sourcing one, as I’m not local enough for the local panel and not clever enough for the data-mashing one… The speakers have placed very heavy emphasis on the verification process, from Demotix looking at information contained within

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
crowd-sourced journalism

Afternoon Tea Reading 12th Jan 2010 Members Public

The renaming just for Martin (blog [http://www.itsdevelopmental.com/], twitter [http://twitter.com/martincouzins]) who asked if I ever drank tea… - [News International starting to block paid-for aggregators from crawling its sites](http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-news-int.-will-also-block-sun-online-notw.co.uk-from-newsnow/). The paywall cometh… - [Which Flip should

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
aggregation

Publishing in the Flow Members Public

Nice summary of the key concept so many people from traditional media are struggling to understand [http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2009/10/we-applied-the-lens-of-advertising-interuptive-message-based-to-new-media-instead-we-should-apply-the-lens-of-new-medi.html] from Neil Perkin: > *Jason and Gareth talk about the flow of information over time: “ideas as unfolding stories, a stream of iterations

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Journalists