tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post115231894300921964..comments2024-03-26T23:49:37.130-05:00Comments on detritus.: telling it truesuttonhoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292408097588177380noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-1152414781861937972006-07-08T22:13:00.000-05:002006-07-08T22:13:00.000-05:00when i heard the news of the London attacks, i wen...when i heard the news of the London attacks, i went to flickr first. just like the Madrid bomb attacks, I watched as the moblog shots rolled into Flickr and documented the horror before it even hit the mainstream news.<BR/><BR/>citizen journalism is the future...and like patrick said, the "old media" boyz (let's be honest, it's still run by men) are afraid to lose their power. <BR/><BR/>and it's not just news agencies who are fighting the shift to the user. education is locked in the same sort of battle with the MySpace generation.<BR/><BR/>i have a friend who works at one of the main TV networks in NYC. He told me that the pres of his network gave a talk and told them that blogs, podcasting were "all a passing fad." <BR/><BR/>The shift to user generated content is here to stay. It's not going anywhere and it's impacting us in ways we don't even realize yet.Derek E. Bairdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13616945685763363112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23631803.post-1152397217831404622006-07-08T17:20:00.000-05:002006-07-08T17:20:00.000-05:00I've taken to doing the exact same thing when some...I've taken to doing the exact same thing when something newsworthy occurs in public (such as the Dublin riots a few months ago). News agencies should start to get worried cos the power is shifting to the people!p2wyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12966250636090486350noreply@blogger.com