New Media Lots going on in Citizen Journalism - Dan Gillmor is building a non-profit 'Center for Citizen Media', moving on from his previous (for-profit) project called Bayosphere. [via SiliconBeat] - The much-anticipated Pegasus News has released their first product, a music and entertainment news site called TexasGigs. It started as a music blog by Cindy Chaffin in 2002 - Chaffin will… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS & Feeds RSS everywhere in 2005 - RSS organized in 2006? This image from a Scott Gatz presentation sums it up: 2005 was about introducing RSS to the products listed in Scott's picture. 2006 will surely be about how to organize all those RSS feeds, for mainstream people in particular. Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Thanks Feedster Feedster has named Read/WriteWeb one of their Feeds of the Year. Their summary of my blog is pretty funny, given the controversy over the past few days. Russell Shaw, whose post was the final straw which led me to declaring myself fed up with all the Web 2.0 hype and debate, was one of the judges! Talk about coincidence. A couple of days ago on my… Richard MacManus View comments
Real World Disaster Response and the Web in 2005: The Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina I've published a post on ZDNet that details how the Web was used for good in 2005, in very bad situations. It was actually something I wrote for the book I'm working on with Joshua Porter, but it will almost certainly not be used (due to the book having a design focus). So I thought I'd share it with you now, because I learned a lot researching… Richard MacManus View comments
Web 2.0 Cat eats pigeons: why Web 2.0 has jumped the shark Well my declaration that Web 2.0 is dead set the cat amongst the pigeons. Let me give a bit of background... I've been thinking for a while now about re-focusing Read/WriteWeb onto more media-related Web technologies. Many of the things I'm interested in are being done by Yahoo!, which by now is generally recognized as a media company. Web-based… Richard MacManus View comments