September 13th, 2008 by erik
“Hey now, we cannot just put up citizen reports. That is just not possible! Let us have a separate page for the people who are interested in this in particular. Oh, and we need to control every entry too.”
The comment above is heard way too often in the traditional media news rooms around the world. [...]
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August 26th, 2008 by erik
“I have been thinking that the newspapers have got it right! Only the popular topics gets all the hits… The rest get… well… just the spill overs.”
He is right on one part, but oh so wrong…
The news papers and media in the US today predominantly covers entertainment news, and very little international news. In Feburary [...]
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March 20th, 2008 by erik
Currently the world have been struck by the events in Tibet, where the recent provocations by the Chinese government has stunned the world once again. As an example for how this interaction can become and how rich the discussion can become here is an example: Tibet is Chinese for Palestine. By reading the comments you [...]
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February 12th, 2008 by erik
A friend asked me this, this weekend. My answer was that I do not believe that to be the case but democracy is still indisputable the only path to go. The reason being very simple. Democracy relies on the consensus of humans and that has been proven to be hard. Even within a tight group [...]
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February 6th, 2008 by erik
I read this column by Nicholas Carr in Forbes. For sure software and the whole internet is moving more towards a media focus. Interesting indeed.
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