AG on New Media

Read on to check out a prototype of the Google Maps/Flickr mashup (hand-powered) for the BBCs trip to silicon valley.
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In Chapter 2 of “We the Media,” Dan Gillmor gives a brief overview of the technologies that make citizen journalism possible. Though already outdated (note how his discussion of the expense of delivering video on the Web is no longer valid thanks to services like Google Video, YouTube and clones), the most important argument he makes is for RSS feeds. RSS is important not because it can deliver headlines to your desk, but because it is a precursor to the Web service future; RSS is an early mechanism designed to atomize content and free it from any particular display device.

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As you’ll quickly learn, Rafe Needleman is one of my favorite Web 2.0 Guru’s (it helps that I worked with him over the summer).

He posted the other day about Blish, a service that sells little bits of content. I like the thought that this is finally a way to get publishers to sell out-of-print stuff…

Via CNET’s Alpha Blog