An interesting article in Lebanon’s Daily Star, outlining how mobile technology has been used, in a number of ways, during the war between Lebanon and Isreal.
It’s mobile technology as part of journalism, citizen journalism and propaganda.

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A fantastic post by Jeff Jarvis on the direction of journalism - or at least trying to understand what direction it will be. Required reading.
 Some of the points I liked
…journalism will no longer be defined by its medium. It will be unbundled, in Terry Heaton’s words — and so journalists must learn how to tell [...]

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A nice article from The Times by Jonathan Weber looking at the decision by American newspaper The Missoulian to use the web simply as a feeder for print subscriptions, looking at the problem of the free info economy and its impact on print publications along the way.
Local newspaper people, who are used to profitable quasi-monopolies, just [...]

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In a previous post I was a little sarcastic about Mark Thompson’s use of the phrase 360 degree content creation as he tried to outline where the BBC needed to go.
Of course the concept of 360 degree content creation isn’t as stupid as it sounds. A journalist writes a piece that is picked up by [...]

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