DVreport

Learning digital literacy

2005-07-18T13:29:00.000+02:00

I took my video camcorder to Turku. My intention was to tell something with moving image. Problem is that I didn't have anything to tell. This is a blog about mediated communication - not about my family seeing Turku. I did not shoot anything.

I toke some photos, just to make this point. It is important to use a correct media to tell the right message. Fact that we were in Turku, can be told be a photo -it does not need video. (If I would want to make a point that moving furniture was hard work, it might have been done better with a video clip.)

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Donate a link- it keeps the next visitor warmer

2005-07-10T15:55:00.000+02:00

This relates to my last blogging about attention as power. (I just don't accept that the amount of people linked to your blog equals the authority of your message.)

In Finland we have cottages with public right of access. They are in wilderness and I have never used one. When you go there, everything is ready. You have firewood. You are tiered after a long walk. System works so that everyone makes the firewood for the next quest, because you should and because it makes sense. (It’s much nice to be able to start cooking straight away than try to find wet threes and make a fire.)

If this works in the wilderness – and people don’t know the next visitor – why should it work in virtual space? So let’s try a campaign “Donate a link”. Idea is that when you do to a site – like xo4u.blogspot.com and browse through links, you might also donate one of your good links to public use. Donating links means sharing them and you don’t have to know the next guest.

(I know that this is much the same as Y! MyWeb 2.0. If you like it, use it. Or Del.isio.us or Blinklist) I have tried to find out how Technorati counts links. I cannot figure it out. Also I have been playing with Blinklist.

I have made a small demonstration about one way to share links.
1) Users tag their links at Blinklist and
2) I have RSS feeds on my blog at "Video collection". It generates links that are tagged as "Exercise", "Martial arts", and "Health". In future it will be refined with a bolean operation of RSSfeeds.
3) Users are not publishing to this site, I am just sharing public links. And anyone can log in to a RSSFeed or use this site as it is.

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Attention as power

2005-07-09T16:26:00.000+02:00

Just downloaded Yahoos My Web2 and also tried to understand how links are make in technorati. In new economy attention or recognision is power. We use to think that media is a power and know it is the number of bloggers are "linked" to your site.

This is a criteria for search engines to show and different social software to evaluate the reliability of the content - authority?

You can check how well this works by looking at the most popular links.
http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/

socialcomputing journalism citizen+journalism

Factual video journalism

2005-07-09T08:36:00.000+02:00

I am doing an experiment on a none fiction citizen journalism that uses online video. Would this be factual vcitj? Or onlinecitizenjournalismvideodocumentary.

Idea is to collect online material as a public link collection by an exact subject. Not by geographical location. In my experiment I am interested in content about physical exercise. It about collecting online material about health, wellness and fitness.

Most of journalism is doing research and editing other peoples texts. So am I doing citizen journalism even though I am not writing?

Link to “Health and Wellness”
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Video citizen journalism

2005-07-07T19:18:00.000+02:00

Vlog are coming more and more popular and publishing videos thru Google, Ourmedia, Internet archive, Yahoo and other streaming servers is free.

Video can be used as a normal tool for citizen journalism just like normal blogging. Or maybe we should just think of text, photo and video and use a media at it’s best. Use video to show, when we have to footish and write when we need to deal with abstract concepts.

In citizen journalism we need to use more video – it can be from our mobile phone or digital camera, but video camcorders are quite small to carry, too. Moving image has a very convincing power.

(I know that my first Vlog image is also from homevideo, but one has to start from same where…)
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Creating a videoblog

2005-07-06T09:39:00.000+02:00

Just testing http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/2004/11/how_to_make_a_v.html

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

Internet archive has not yet verified my video so I am using an other solution. I will link the video to Internet archive as soon as it publishes this same material.

Sharing and citj in BBC

2005-07-04T08:45:00.000+02:00

(referring to discussion at http://www.ireporter.org/2005/06/notes_from_the_.html)

Few days a go there was a news story about BBC and journalism training http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k5/june/june325.htm

I think that the interest for citj is much about the interest in media and digital literacy. The importance of it has been recognized very broadly. (In EU projects are poorly funded compared to many other issues.)

I did a media exchange project with BBC learning centre http://www.bbc.co.uk/21cc/
We let 15 to 16 years old students do television inserts in Jyvaskyla and London and exchanges stories. Reportages were broadcasted on BBC2.

BBC is very active in citizen journalism. We have worked with an organization called CSV (www.csv.org.uk) to launch an international project for training citizen journalists. CSV works much with BBC’s regional radio stations. (Email me, some one wants more information about this.)

Biggest sharing that BBC has is the Creative Archive. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/05_may/26/creative_archive.shtml

This is old news for many of you. But I’ll try to give a new angle on this. I have been following this and talked with Paul Gerhardt. He is the joint director. So there is something more than speculation in my comment.

BBC has about 25000 employees, but it will give free access to huge amount of it’s intellectual property (aca ”content”). BBC is a public broadcaster, but it is not a charity organization. It is responsible for it’s workers. The decision to share up to 20% of it’s content is a sound business decision. BBC will make a profit. Material that is shared is low resolution and cannot be used in television broadcasting or corporate presentations. It just creates a “hype”. (I think this is a great win-win idea.)

I commented on the story about freelancers getting fired because news papers are using bloggers. In BBC journalists will be able to keep their jobs, because BBC uses the help of citizen journalism.

(We live in a strange world. Even business is changing. We used to have just products and services, but know we have something called intellectual property – like copyrights, contacts, status or fame. We buy and sell possibilities – options to success. And somehow just giving something away makes you rich? BUT “rich” might not be “money”:-) It might be something that you can turn in to money, tough.)

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Games and Mediated Communication

2005-07-03T09:42:00.000+02:00

Invitation to bright minds

Thank you for your presentations and articles. You have given me ideas – and those are included in my latest experiment. I toke part in Wade Roush’s collective writing exercise for MIT Technology review. (It will be published 5th of July, 2005 http://www.continuousblog.net/)

I want to try the method on preparation of a presentation that I am giving at Nordic Serious Games Seminar 3rd of August, 2005. (So I have about one month to make the presentation.)

I am NOT asking you to write the presentation. (I have to do it my self.)

For me this is about the presentation and getting ideas, but I hope that you can see a bigger picture. This is about collective writing and using technology to share ideas. I have set up a blog for sharing

http://smartcom.blogspot.com/

Check it for more information... and hope it gives you ideas ... and you might even share them:-)

www.dvreport.com updated

2005-07-01T22:21:00.000+02:00

It toke a long time, but now a first version of DVreport is published.

Citizen journalism – what is a citizen?

2005-06-27T22:09:00.000+02:00

“Citizenship also often implies working towards the betterment of the community one lives in through participation, volunteer work and efforts to improve life for all citizens.” (from wikipedia).

Community is important for citizen journalism. Can the community be a virtual one? Can we have citizen journalism in virtual communities? Can one be a citizen of a virtual community?
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Continuous social power

2005-06-26T10:15:00.000+02:00

1) Does business mean making money? So is the question, does citizen journalist get paid? Does the money come from add on blogs or from freelance salary from different sources.

2) Also Sam Whitmore is concerned about literacy, but more of reading and writing. Often we speak of digital literacy and this would include the skills and wills of using blogs and RSS and mobilephone and satelite television. Sam has a "audio feed" a kind of audioblog or his own radiochannel. That is one solution for helping people who don't want to read.

But is there business (money) in this? This is a relevant question only if you need money. Some one can be doing this just to pass the time or to help others of the get recognized:-)

The power of citizen journalism might not be in one individual blogger. It might not be a way to get rich for most of us. It does not have to compite with business of atension (newspapers, broadcasters and so on.)

Power of citizen journalism might be in the idea of global village. In the idea of 150 persons in a tribe and about 1000 contacts as a personal network. Citizen journalism makes you rich in your contacts. People get to know what you want to do and you will find the right contacts to get it done.
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Find my voice?

2005-06-22T14:04:00.000+02:00

I like the idea of experimenting more. Lately I have become a ware of who much we copy others stories. In films it is easy to see, but I think we do it in written stories too. We have an understanding of what is important and how to story should be told. If we can find a story from backyard, where can we find our personal way of sharing?

Citizen journalism

2005-06-21T08:42:00.000+02:00

I am trying to figure out, what is citizen-journalism. It can be a hobby or a profession. In a hobby it is enough to be read or to be heard. As a profession we need to get fame or money. (Fame or recognition is “money in many areas.)

So for everyone is important to understand why they are writing. (I am doing a PhD on this.) Also it would be good if your audience knows where you come from. In citizen-journalism a very big issue seems to be creditability. Does the reporter have a hidden agenda? (As if that would not be the case in traditional journalism?)

The point I am trying to get is, that one way of thinking of civic, citizen or public journalism is think of it as “Hide Park”. Your box is digital media. In Hide Park the speakers can see their audiences. We need to see ours in citizen journalism. The story might be from the backyard, but who is interested in listening to us?

Check http://www.ireporter.org

Tools for mobile communication

2005-06-10T09:58:00.000+02:00

Yep, I will start looking for tools and software to be connected to internet all the time. Or when ever I want to. I want to know what would be the cheapest and most useful environment to send videos and to be in contact with my tribe.

Call for friends

2005-06-06T11:11:00.000+02:00

Dialoque is the way to get knowledge and understanding. For that I need more friends that are interested in growing. I want to know more about how we communicate and how we learn, and how we survive this race with development.

Take care...

Communication is a tool

2005-05-29T09:16:00.000+02:00

Communication is basically a tool for us. We use it to fullfill our needs like getting noticed, and getting information and passing it to others.

In this sense mediated communication is just a technologically powered tool. We can do more good or bad with a powerful tool. Of cource my research is about how to use this tool more effectively, but I can stop wondering about the reasons for using this tool.

Why do we communicate? Are we getting wiser or greadier? Do I want to change the world or my self?

Virtual world is real

2005-05-24T08:01:00.000+02:00

Often we speak of real world and virtual world. Virtual in a meaning that we are connected to blogs, forums and play games in get with people that we have never met in person.

BUT people in virtual world are real living people. The character might be an animated figure, but there is a real person controlling it. Is this a real social contact? or imagination? Is virtual world something real. I think it can become more real as friends from internet start meeting each other in real life. Would we call a penpal an imaginary friend even though we have not met him?

What if some one is using a fake identity? Does it make him virtual? No it makes him not trustworthy or shy? But there is a real person behind that identity.

It is a real world!

To go where the party is?

2005-05-24T07:15:00.000+02:00

I blog to get feedback, but no one has replied on any post. That is here on my blog, but when I write to other sites, I get comments. Should I write to public sites or blog my own?

I think I will do the both for a while.

How to be a super-hero?

2005-05-22T10:59:00.000+02:00

Super-hero has unnatural skills. He has a laser view or a can hear discussions from other cities and so on. What if anyone of us, could become a super-hero? Not alone, but with help of others? There is a experience on http://www.continuousblog.net/2005/05/post.html about "Social Computing". Idea is that we all collect and process information and that way build a collective super threnght.

In near future (or now in some cases) collecting information and tagging it to OWL http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-features-20040210/ can be automated. So where ever you are, you are connected and reporting and also connected to use information others have collected. "A super nerd".

What do you want to do with your powers? Use is for good or making you rich and famous. Well let's do the rich and famous first and after that safe the world:-)

Watching TV too close?

2005-05-20T07:07:00.000+02:00

Have you tried to watch your TV screen at the distance of 25 cm? I think that TV screen is too big and the picture is not very good. I don't think that people will start watching their current televisions this close. I don't think that they will carry them arround either - even if tv's were wireless.

So why do we compere TV and Mobile? Why does it sound clever when some one says that screen on a mobile phone is too small and we don't want to watch moving images on it? New phones have the same amount of pixels. It has the same amount of information. We just look at it closer and often in a noisier environment. I think that mobile phone will be a very good tool for instructions, educational clips, music videos and so on.

Photo a day keeps the doctor a way

2005-05-19T11:01:00.000+02:00

I am not an evening person. I can't write a log of days events in the evening. That's when I watch television.
I think that I will try to take one picture a day. Not that it will publish. It might...
Taking photos is good for your health. It gives an moment just for you and to consentrate on what is in front of you.

Learning bloggers way of life

2005-05-17T08:11:00.000+02:00

For now I have written my diary first in the morning. It has been a kind of what do I want to do today session. I will continue that on my computer. Blogging might be an end of the day session?
What happened and what's on my mind in the end of the day?

I don't know if it matters to readers. Blogging is meant for reading and I would love feed back, but the process of just writing and expressing a tought publicly is important too. The possibility that some one reads this, makes me think more about what I am writing.

Content, context, image

2005-05-16T07:51:00.000+02:00

Content was King - Now the slogan is "Context is King". We just have to see what is the next trueism.

I wanted to test how to import an image. I have four dauthers. Here are two youngest last Sunday morning on an early photoshoot at our backyard.

non-profit reporting

2005-05-14T09:22:00.000+02:00

Steve Outing wrote about Non-profit reporting on Poynteronline

http://www.poynter.org/profile/profile.asp?user=1648

That is something that I was thinking when naming this blog as "DVreport".
DV is digital video so non-profit video reports and by mobilephones - yes.
But we need an ontology for selecting reports that we want to view or clips from reports.

Feeling lucky

2005-05-13T11:20:00.000+02:00

Today is the 13th and a Friday, which here in Finland would be considered as an unlucky day. Murphy's day? I have been working all morning and think that I have got something done, too. I have send emails and answered them. I used to think that lot of emails was waisting my time. But now I feel that emailing is a modern way of talking. Sometimes I have serious discussions with long emails and often I just through a comment for a by passer.

Emails are one way off being in contact with people. I think it's waluable that someone takes time and writes a message to me. Tries to help me to understand something. (I don't like spamm. That's like shouting at you face or trying to sell you stuff at a street corner when your not interested in buying.

Making waves

2005-05-12T10:14:00.000+02:00

Big step for me - to publish a bolg and to use a platform that I don't control.
What if blogger decides to put a prise tag on the blog?
Well, I will deal with that when it happens.

I think that it is important to let the steam out - publish and see where it will take me.