Post Tagged with: "user generated content"

CBC’s Exposure

CBC has launched an interesting new program that combines online and offline. Exposure encourages people to post their own videos (I did so for Putting Piracy in Perspective) and it plans to air some of the videos on the main network starting later this month.

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July 16, 2007 3 comments News

House of Commons Video Clip Service

I've written recently about the unfortunate restrictions on the use of House of Commons video clips for parody and other purposes.  Kevin McArthur has responded by launching Mycelium, which allows bloggers to easily create embeddable clips of the Question Period stream.

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June 20, 2007 2 comments News

Weekend Reading

There were several interesting and longer articles published over the weekend – check out the Boston Globe on the impact of the Internet on political campaigns, the LA Times on citizen journalism in South Korea, Julian Dibbell in the NY Times with a great piece on Chinese gold farming, and […]

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June 18, 2007 Comments are Disabled News

Facing Up To Facebook Fears

Appeared in the Toronto Star on May 7, 2007 as Let's Face It, Facebook is Here To Stay Facebook, the enormously popular social media website, has attracted a remarkable amount of attention in recent weeks.   On the heels of several high profile cases of student suspensions for posting negative comments […]

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May 7, 2007 6 comments Columns Archive

OECD on User Generated Content

The OECD has just issued an important and insightful report on user generated content and the policy issues it raises.

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April 16, 2007 1 comment News