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Freddy Sanon from Ottawa, Canada writes: LATE!! See Vancouver's Orato and NowPublic or even (cringe) Quebecor's CANOE Live...Canada has had a thriving participatory news media (fancy term for citizen journalism) scene online for some time now.
- Posted 25/03/08 at 8:11 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Randal Oulton from Canada writes: The phrase "Web 2.0" was originally supposed to mean accessing the Internet with an interface that was not the same "browser" that we are using currently (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc.) In many people's minds, it also implied the end of "flat, 2-d" websites that are common in the current "Web 1.0".
The phrase is now, though, pretty much meaningless because marketers have hijacked it, and applied it to regular, flat-format website content, in the same manner that laundry-soap advertisers used to shout "NEW and improved!" Consequently, Web 2.0 now has as much meaning as does the word "organic", which was similarly highjacked (Sony's branding one of its TV's as "organic" was a moment of delightful comedy.)
I guess for the next evolution of the Internet we'll have to use Web 3.0 -- and then Web 4.0, when they start dressing the same old stuff up as 3.0, too :}- Posted 26/03/08 at 1:34 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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Lago Cornelius from Toronto, Canada writes: There are two questions the reporter failed to ask. 1) How much total ad revenue does Digital Journal get, and 2) what percentage of that revenue goes into the "money pot"? 1%? 0.5%?
The amount of money that Digital Journal doles out is ridiculously low for the quality and quantity of articles they're receiving in return. The whole thing reeks of exploitation - the people contributing to this site are the same ones who would respond to those ads on craiglist for "volunteer magazine contributors - we don't pay anything but you get to see your name in print!!"
It seems to me that Hogg and this site are just looking to get rich off the backs of people who don't know any better.- Posted 26/03/08 at 7:13 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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