The BBC is to broadcast its first TV show in Second Life when Money Programme looks at the economics of the virtual world.The programme, which will be broadcast at the Rivers Run Red Cinema in Second Life on 1 June, follows reporter Max Flint (and avatar MP Masala) as he investigates the real fortunes being made in virtual worlds.The film looks at selling 'virtual' products in Second Life and at the phenomenon of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMORPG) such as World of Warcraft, which has more than eight million paying members.The film will also look at virtual crime, how the industry is responding to MMORPG players who illegally trade game items for real money.
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lunedì, maggio 28, 2007
BBC debuts TV show in Second Life
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martedì, aprile 17, 2007
Reporters turn to blogs for shooting witnesses
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Journalists flocked to students' weblogs last night in search of eyewitnesses to a shooting massacre on a US college campus.A guman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, before turning the weapon on himself in the worst such massacre in American history.
A number of blogs kept by the university's student population provided harrowing first-hand testimony to the scenes on the university campus. One LiveJournal user, Paul, wrote how a student was hit by a bullet to her hand.
Ten years in to the evolution of the weblog, the medium has given individuals a voice with which to report their own personal stories. But the outpouring of reportage found in the blogosphere also gives professional reporters an opportunity to seek eyewitnesses for inclusion in news outlets with much larger audiences.
Within hours, reporters from around the world had scoured the blogosphere for first-hand accounts of the shooting, and found many student eyewitnesses to place on television, radio, print and the web.
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sabato, marzo 17, 2007
Les créatifs culturels sont-ils influents ?
De Telos - Agence intellectuelle:
Emportés par leur projection radieuse sur la modernité, les thuriféraires du Net oublient que la société connectée et participative ne concerne qu'une fraction de la population.
La moitié des Français surfe sur la Toile, mais seuls 40 % des foyers sont reliés au réseau. Ces usagers comprennent majoritairement des CSP + (38 %), ou des inactifs. Les CSP - représentant seulement 29 % des internautes. Les moins de 35 ans représentent 49 % des internautes. Et cette configuration typée – jeune urbain diplômé – est encore plus prononcée dans la blogosphère.
Les blogs les plus nourris et les plus actifs sont le fait de jeunes urbains dans la trentaine, qui combinant les fonctions de journalistes d’entrepreneurs du net et de militants citoyens. Nicolas Voisin, auteur de deux romans, a lancé un blog en 2004 avant d’ouvrir en 2006 un site plus large d’informations et de débats, Politicshow. Thierry Crouzet, expert du Net et animateur de bonweb.fr, est ingénieur informaticien et journaliste. GuilhemFouetillou, ingénieur aujourd’hui thésard, fondateur de RTGI (Réseaux, territoires, et géographie de l’information), start up spécialisée dans l’observatoire de communautés en ligne, édite le site observatoire-présidentielle.fr. On pourrait multiplier les exemples. Ainsi, loin d’apparaître comme la seule résultante d’initiatives de millions d’individus isolés, la blogosphère politique est d’abord tissée par des réseaux préconstitués.
Le Net permet l’expression et la publicisation de soi, il accomplit la mise sur orbite de personnes qui, par cette voie, cherchent à faire connaître leurs points de vue et à conquérir une certaine visibilité, et éventuellement une notoriété. Ces blogs nés dans le sillage des présidentielles accueillent donc de jeunes experts ou journalistes en voie de professionnalisation, et parfois déjà bien insérés. La Toile fournit un marchepied à des professionnels qui, plus tard, pourront jouer un rôle dans la vie publique.
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Emportés par leur projection radieuse sur la modernité, les thuriféraires du Net oublient que la société connectée et participative ne concerne qu'une fraction de la population.
La moitié des Français surfe sur la Toile, mais seuls 40 % des foyers sont reliés au réseau. Ces usagers comprennent majoritairement des CSP + (38 %), ou des inactifs. Les CSP - représentant seulement 29 % des internautes. Les moins de 35 ans représentent 49 % des internautes. Et cette configuration typée – jeune urbain diplômé – est encore plus prononcée dans la blogosphère.
Les blogs les plus nourris et les plus actifs sont le fait de jeunes urbains dans la trentaine, qui combinant les fonctions de journalistes d’entrepreneurs du net et de militants citoyens. Nicolas Voisin, auteur de deux romans, a lancé un blog en 2004 avant d’ouvrir en 2006 un site plus large d’informations et de débats, Politicshow. Thierry Crouzet, expert du Net et animateur de bonweb.fr, est ingénieur informaticien et journaliste. GuilhemFouetillou, ingénieur aujourd’hui thésard, fondateur de RTGI (Réseaux, territoires, et géographie de l’information), start up spécialisée dans l’observatoire de communautés en ligne, édite le site observatoire-présidentielle.fr. On pourrait multiplier les exemples. Ainsi, loin d’apparaître comme la seule résultante d’initiatives de millions d’individus isolés, la blogosphère politique est d’abord tissée par des réseaux préconstitués.
Le Net permet l’expression et la publicisation de soi, il accomplit la mise sur orbite de personnes qui, par cette voie, cherchent à faire connaître leurs points de vue et à conquérir une certaine visibilité, et éventuellement une notoriété. Ces blogs nés dans le sillage des présidentielles accueillent donc de jeunes experts ou journalistes en voie de professionnalisation, et parfois déjà bien insérés. La Toile fournit un marchepied à des professionnels qui, plus tard, pourront jouer un rôle dans la vie publique.
(Continue...)
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domenica, marzo 11, 2007
March of the censors: France, Turkey and China clamp down on freedom of speech
(From GlobalVoices)
Two weeks ago, the French blog AgoraVox, one of the leading European citizen media blogs, warned against what it termed the gradual “berlusconisation” of the French media and the threat posed by the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, French Minister of the Interior and conservative party head, to freedom of speech in the country.
Yesterday, France’s Constitutional Council passed the Sarkozy law [Fr] ( Loi sur la prévention de la délinquance - Law on the prevention of criminality), which criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. During the parliamentary debate, government representatives said the law is meant to target a practice known as “happy slapping”, defined in Wikipedia as “a fad in which an unsuspecting victim is attacked while an accomplice records the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone).”
In France, therefore, the filming and broadcasting of acts of violence such as the riots which took place in the Paris suburbs during the month of October and November, 2005, will henceforth be the prerogative of accredited journalists only. Under this new law, any other eyewitness who records acts of violence, or anyone who makes the content available online (the operator of a web site, for instance) could face up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of nearly US$100,000.
In an ironic twist, the law was announced on March 3, 2007, exactly 16 years after amateur videographer George Holliday filmed African-American Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers (see the video on YouTube). The officers’ eventual acquittal in 1992 sparked off riots in the city.
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Two weeks ago, the French blog AgoraVox, one of the leading European citizen media blogs, warned against what it termed the gradual “berlusconisation” of the French media and the threat posed by the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, French Minister of the Interior and conservative party head, to freedom of speech in the country.
Yesterday, France’s Constitutional Council passed the Sarkozy law [Fr] ( Loi sur la prévention de la délinquance - Law on the prevention of criminality), which criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. During the parliamentary debate, government representatives said the law is meant to target a practice known as “happy slapping”, defined in Wikipedia as “a fad in which an unsuspecting victim is attacked while an accomplice records the assault (commonly with a camera phone or a smartphone).”
In France, therefore, the filming and broadcasting of acts of violence such as the riots which took place in the Paris suburbs during the month of October and November, 2005, will henceforth be the prerogative of accredited journalists only. Under this new law, any other eyewitness who records acts of violence, or anyone who makes the content available online (the operator of a web site, for instance) could face up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of nearly US$100,000.
In an ironic twist, the law was announced on March 3, 2007, exactly 16 years after amateur videographer George Holliday filmed African-American Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police officers (see the video on YouTube). The officers’ eventual acquittal in 1992 sparked off riots in the city.
Read the whole story
sabato, febbraio 24, 2007
Egypt: blogger Kareem Amer gets 4 years for insulting Islam
An Egyptian court this week sentenced blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman (pictured above) to four years in prison. He is the first person in Egypt to be jailed for internet-based journalism.
He was charged with "inciting hatred of Islam" and insulting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on his blog, where he wrote under the pseudonym of "Kareem Amer": Link (Arabic), here is his Blogger.com profile, and here are writings he posted on a discussion forum: Link (Arabic).
The sentence comes three years after Mubarak announced he would abolish the practice of imprisonment for "press offenses."
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mercoledì, dicembre 06, 2006
Microsoft lance un outil de recherche de livres
Quiconque souhaite consulter un tome obscur dans les voûtes de la British Library pourra le faire en ligne dès demain.
Microsoft lance Live Search Books, un service rival à Book Search de Google, en version test ou bêta, aux États-Unis.
L’archive numérique comprendra des livres de collections de la British Library, ainsi que des bibliothèques de l’Université de la Californie et de l’Université de Toronto.
Des livres de trois autres institutions seront ajoutés en janvier 2007.
Lis l'article en entier sur Canoë
Microsoft lance Live Search Books, un service rival à Book Search de Google, en version test ou bêta, aux États-Unis.
L’archive numérique comprendra des livres de collections de la British Library, ainsi que des bibliothèques de l’Université de la Californie et de l’Université de Toronto.
Des livres de trois autres institutions seront ajoutés en janvier 2007.
Lis l'article en entier sur Canoë
martedì, dicembre 05, 2006
YouTube 'should check copyright'
Video website YouTube should proactively check if videos infringe copyright, a group representing Japanese rights holders has said.
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers wants videos checked before they go online.
More than 100m videos are watched each day via YouTube and many are posted without necessary permissions.
Last month 30,000 clips were taken down by YouTube at the request of the Japanese entertainment group.
YouTube's policy has been to remove clips that infringe copyright after it receives complaints.
The current system "is not functioning well due to the [continued] large volume of illegal uploads," said the letter, reported the Associated Press.
Read the whole story on BBC News
The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers wants videos checked before they go online.
More than 100m videos are watched each day via YouTube and many are posted without necessary permissions.
Last month 30,000 clips were taken down by YouTube at the request of the Japanese entertainment group.
YouTube's policy has been to remove clips that infringe copyright after it receives complaints.
The current system "is not functioning well due to the [continued] large volume of illegal uploads," said the letter, reported the Associated Press.
Read the whole story on BBC News
martedì, novembre 28, 2006
YouTube moves to the small screen
A deal between YouTube and US mobile firm Verizon Wireless will see the popular video-sharing website extended to mobile phones.
Users who subscribe to Verizon's Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website via their mobiles.
The trial, which wil begin in December, will also allow users to post video clips from their phones more easily.
It is likely that similar tie-ups will follow as mobile operators look for a slice of the social-networking pie.
More than 100 million video clips are viewed every day on the YouTube website.
Read the whole story on BBC News
Users who subscribe to Verizon's Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website via their mobiles.
The trial, which wil begin in December, will also allow users to post video clips from their phones more easily.
It is likely that similar tie-ups will follow as mobile operators look for a slice of the social-networking pie.
More than 100 million video clips are viewed every day on the YouTube website.
Read the whole story on BBC News
lunedì, novembre 27, 2006
Online video 'eroding TV viewing'
The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests.
Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.
And online and mobile viewing is rising - three quarters of users said they now watched more than they did a year ago.
But online video viewers are still in the minority, with just 9% of the population saying they do it regularly.
Another 13% said they watched occasionally, while a further 10% said they expected to start in the coming year.
Read the rest of the article on BBC News
Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.
And online and mobile viewing is rising - three quarters of users said they now watched more than they did a year ago.
But online video viewers are still in the minority, with just 9% of the population saying they do it regularly.
Another 13% said they watched occasionally, while a further 10% said they expected to start in the coming year.
Read the rest of the article on BBC News
martedì, novembre 07, 2006
Google batte la tv e sfida la carta stampata
La pubblicità si conferma la vera anima di Google, il motore che ha permesso all'astronave dei servizi web di sbarcare sulla terra ferma, e questa volta per restarci. In Gran Bretagna, Google da ieri ha sorpassato Channel Four nella raccolta pubblicitaria: 900 milioni di sterline contro 800 milioni.
Per la prima volta una società web, per quanto il termine possa suonare ridicolmente limitativo nel caso di BigG, supera un'emittente televisiva sul terreno che le è proprio: vendere un pubblico più o meno omogeneo a degli inserzionisti paganti. Nella storia dei media non era mai successo.
Dagli Stati Uniti, il boom della pubblicità online sbarca ora in Europa, attraverso la testa di ponte britannica e il confronto con la tv broadcasting non verte soltanto i numeri del fatturato ma la redditività. A tutto vantaggio del web.
Grazie alla diffusione delle connessioni veloci, l'interattività è diventata la chiave della pubblicità che sta abbandonando gradualmente banner e pop up per offrire filmati in streaming sempre più spettacolari, advergames, screensavers e icone per il messanger tematizzati. Ma, soprattutto, messaggi promozionali su misura delle reali necessità informative del navigatore.
Simbolicamente è il passaggio dalla "generazione MTv", che ha trasformato la televisione degli anni 80 e 90, alla "generazione YouTube", che scarica video creati o condivisi da altri utenti. Con decine di milioni di download al giorno, proprio YouTube offre oggi un modello alternativo al broadcast e al satellite e tra qualche anno potrà anche offrire anche una qualità paragonabile.
Se ne è accordo Murdoch, non poteva sfuggire proprio a Larry Page e Sergey Brin, che infatti si sono decisi ad acquistarlo (dopo aver inutilmente cercato di imitare). Ma Google non guarda solo al video ma anche alla carta stampata. Negli Stati Uniti la società di Mountain View ha cominciato ad offrire ai suoi clienti anche spazi pubblicitari su 50 quotidiani statunitensi.
Print Ads (si chiama cosi') per ora è solo un test ma chi acquista dei click sul web potrà adesso comprare anche spazi sul Washington Post o sul New York Times, caricando testi e immagini dell'annuncio direttamente dalla propria sezione AdWords. 'Ai clienti il servizio permette di accedere a una rete di quotidiani attraverso un sistema di interfaccia online già familiare e di raggiungere un nuovo pubblico', ha dichiarato il portavoce di Google Michael Mayzel. Per ora i quotidiani si riservano di approvare i contenuti delle inserzioni provenienti da Google ma se l'iniziativa avra' successo e' probabile dovranno abbassare le pretese e, soprattutto, le tariffe. In cambio di quella boccata di ossigeno di cui l'editoria tradizionale ha oggi, sempre più disperatamente, un gran bisogno.
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Per la prima volta una società web, per quanto il termine possa suonare ridicolmente limitativo nel caso di BigG, supera un'emittente televisiva sul terreno che le è proprio: vendere un pubblico più o meno omogeneo a degli inserzionisti paganti. Nella storia dei media non era mai successo.
Dagli Stati Uniti, il boom della pubblicità online sbarca ora in Europa, attraverso la testa di ponte britannica e il confronto con la tv broadcasting non verte soltanto i numeri del fatturato ma la redditività. A tutto vantaggio del web.
Grazie alla diffusione delle connessioni veloci, l'interattività è diventata la chiave della pubblicità che sta abbandonando gradualmente banner e pop up per offrire filmati in streaming sempre più spettacolari, advergames, screensavers e icone per il messanger tematizzati. Ma, soprattutto, messaggi promozionali su misura delle reali necessità informative del navigatore.
Simbolicamente è il passaggio dalla "generazione MTv", che ha trasformato la televisione degli anni 80 e 90, alla "generazione YouTube", che scarica video creati o condivisi da altri utenti. Con decine di milioni di download al giorno, proprio YouTube offre oggi un modello alternativo al broadcast e al satellite e tra qualche anno potrà anche offrire anche una qualità paragonabile.
Se ne è accordo Murdoch, non poteva sfuggire proprio a Larry Page e Sergey Brin, che infatti si sono decisi ad acquistarlo (dopo aver inutilmente cercato di imitare). Ma Google non guarda solo al video ma anche alla carta stampata. Negli Stati Uniti la società di Mountain View ha cominciato ad offrire ai suoi clienti anche spazi pubblicitari su 50 quotidiani statunitensi.
Print Ads (si chiama cosi') per ora è solo un test ma chi acquista dei click sul web potrà adesso comprare anche spazi sul Washington Post o sul New York Times, caricando testi e immagini dell'annuncio direttamente dalla propria sezione AdWords. 'Ai clienti il servizio permette di accedere a una rete di quotidiani attraverso un sistema di interfaccia online già familiare e di raggiungere un nuovo pubblico', ha dichiarato il portavoce di Google Michael Mayzel. Per ora i quotidiani si riservano di approvare i contenuti delle inserzioni provenienti da Google ma se l'iniziativa avra' successo e' probabile dovranno abbassare le pretese e, soprattutto, le tariffe. In cambio di quella boccata di ossigeno di cui l'editoria tradizionale ha oggi, sempre più disperatamente, un gran bisogno.
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