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The Next News Media Metaphor – The Sports Team

Many things going on that I want to talk about… Excited about working on Mozilla Drumbeat, a project the Mozilla Foundation that is getting ready to launch. Open Data stuff at the City of Vancouver (some new things are afoot). Watching (in the background) In the Loop – amazing, hilarious and dark. But, for now [...]

Posted 13 January 2010 | David Eaves § media ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged: , ,

Dear Valpy: social media isn’t killing democracy, it’s making it stronger

So I’m really worried I’m becoming the one man rant show about the Globe, but as long as their columnists keep writing stuff that completely misunderstand the intersection between technology and politics, I feel bound to say something.
First it was Martin Lawrence, who was worried about the future of the country since his profile of [...]

Posted 01 September 2009 | David Eaves § canadian politics § media § technology ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Open Source Journalism at the Guardian

A few months ago I wrote a piece called the Death of Journalism which talked about how – even if they find a new revenue model – newspapers are in trouble because they are fundamentally opaque institutions. This built on a piece Taylor Owen wrote called Missing the Link about why newspapers don’t understand (or [...]

Posted 18 June 2009 | David Eaves § open source § technology ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: , ,

Treating the web as an archive – or finding the financial crisis’ ground zero online

Most often when people think of the web they think of it as a place to get new information. Companies are told they must constantly update their website while customers and citizens look for the latest updates. But because the web is relatively new, it is strongly biased towards digitally displaying and archiving “new” information.
What [...]

Posted 30 April 2009 | David Eaves § cool links § media § open source § public policy ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

who is going to cover city hall? we will…

More follow up on the future of democracy and the media. In the comments one reader – Karen – commented:
So….which of you brilliant Gen Y bloggers is going to sit at local park board meetings to find out how they are spending your tax money? Just wondering.
I don’t care whether newspapers live or die. It’s [...]

Posted 07 April 2009 | David Eaves § commentary § media § technology § vancouver ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

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