Posted on July 22, 2009 by leigh3a
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring the need to curate news that has been sourced online. One of the defining elements of the blogosphere and online communities is that they are open and easy to access. However, this means that there is hardly ever any checking of facts (unless comments are a tad [...]
Filed under: Blogging | Tagged: breaking news, citizen journalism, CNN, copyright, curating, Dave Duarte, gate-keeping, iReport, Peas on Toast, plagiarism | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 3, 2008 by leigh3a
Dave Duarte of the Creative Commons recently created a model to describe “how value is realised in today’s fast-paced, largely unpredictable markets.” He adds that this model of value creation suits stable, predictable markets and industries where the consumer doesn’t have many alternative choices of products and services to fulfill their needs. The company thus needs to [...]
Filed under: online | Tagged: Dave Duarte, online, value creation, www | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 21, 2008 by leigh3a
Much has been said in the South African blogosphere lately about the state of, well, blogging.
The debate revolves around the quality of blogposts, which has led to a distinction between professional and amateur blogging – namely blogging as a professional on a certain topic or industry; or blogging for the sake of sharing your [...]
Filed under: Blogging | Tagged: blogging, Dave Duarte, Gino Cosme, incoherent posts, Mike Stopforth, money, Nic Haralambous, professional and amateur, South African blogosphere | 3 Comments »
The snowballing social media space
Mack Collier of The Viral Garden blogs that Social Media isn’t going away, so we should ‘either get on the bus, or get left behind’.
He adds that people who are constantly using social media for their campaigns (thinking that it supercedes all communication tools that came before it); as well as those who keep pointing out [...]
Filed under: Blogging | Tagged: blogosphere, campaigns, caution, comment, Dave Duarte, enduring, get on the bus, left behind, loyal readers, Mack Collier, online, outcomes, share, snowball, social media space, stays online, The Viral Garden, thumbs up | 2 Comments »