Cathy Wang

A while back, I had a great conversation with uncleweed about podcasting. Uncle weed is a podcaster with lots of personality who lives in Vancouver. (You should listen to his shows). At the end of the day, as he said, it’s all about the content you have.

In today’s web, to the recent two-tier internet talk, is about the struggle of content. When everything is about media, creating media content becomes a crucial element in the whole mesh-up of digital age. The media should suit the context of the content. Different styles of media deliveries and technology style determines the final communication of content. Looking at video as one example, all the different ways of recording videos, and putting videos online have changed in its own ways. The fact that everyone can put their video on youtube or any other places … Read More »

I remember back in the days when everyone was using ICQ on their dial up machines, one night a big giant called microsoft suddenly took over the sky of the web and had everyone using MSN. I also remember when I started using MSN I was so amazed by how the amazing free hotmail allowed me to import contact from my MSN messenger. It was a glorious year. I was a teenager, I was hooked that moment on. I also remember the day when I started using google instead of altavista, how I was amazed by google’s inner beauty other than its search engine. (*note: Altavista gets a link because I didn’t even think the site exists still)

Chomsky proposed that there are two kinds of people. One where they shapes our society and one where they do what they have been told. I suppose the old economy has resulted in a lot of people from the second group, which supports the concept where readers will consume news without question.

If it corresponds to my theory of fractal democracy and we apply the adoptability of hubs into this issue, we can see that the most of the people are late majority. The people that really shape the society are the hubs, the first adopters, the early majority.

The old top-down network with media telling us what the news is and controlling our thinking will be similar to a centralized network. The central hub will be the media, which will be the only source that distributes news to us.The new journalism … Read More »

If we have to talk about open source media, we would definitely have to look at pegasusnews

Pegasus News is a local news company that has reinvented the broken content and business model of daily newspapers. We are launching in Dallas, Texas, in 2005 with a hyper-local, news-rich website that will have as many editions as it does users. Within a month of launch, the most broadly interesting and immediate content from that site will be published in a daily tabloid print newspaper. Once we have achieved key benchmarks with the Dallas product, we will leverage our scalable systems to roll out in every top-25 U.S. market with a monopoly newspaper.

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In a sense I feel like they are promoting a varieties of ways to get news to people. If we want to build our own open source media, I think it’s … Read More »