It sounds like there was some tension in the discussion over user-generated content at the Mesh web conference in Toronto. My former boss, BBC News website editor Steve Herrmann was on the panel, together with Tony Hung, an editor with blog aggregator The Blog Herald, and Paul Sullivan of Orato.com, a citizen journalism site based in Vancouver. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to Mesh but there are a
PDF The BBC’s Richard Sambrook has some sound advice for the co-founder and CEO of Topix, Rich Skrenta – “Duck and take cover, Rich.” This is always good advice for most situations. The reason this time is a provocative post by Rich following the WeMedia conference in Miami. The nub of his argument is that no News 2.0 venture has yet proved it can succeed. The problem is that the hopes
Mark Glaser has a thoughtful post wrapping up the WeMedia conference which has just ended in Miami. He comments on how much of the the talk revolved how mainstream media could regain its former dominance of the news. Glaser said that at one point he was so riled that he had to comment, saying: What no one wants to admit is that the mainstream media has lost power and lost