I cannot add anything original to the current news about the blast that rocked Glorietta, a mall in the Makati central business district, so here’s a recap of the event, from bloggers’ perspective:
This list is by no means exhaustive, nor would I attempt to make one. This is merely a snapshot of how bloggers perceive the event. It would also be interesting to note how these differ from how mainstream media tackles this.
Surprisingly, media people rose the occasion and — true to their calling — told the news as it is, based on whatever facts they had at the time. Analysis, speculations — editorials — can come later. This is news, this is journalism at work.
Credit: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
A Google executive in Spain has confirmed that the search giant’s R&D is working on a mobile phone.
Read the translated news item (I don’t know Spanish — except for a few lewd terms — but Google has to work on its translation efforts. “Movable phone” — that’s original. ;))
“The press is no longer gatekeeper over what the public knows,” according to a news media study.
The State of the News Media 2007, conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, outlines changes that traditional (or “mainstream”) media are facing and how news organizations are adapting to these changes.
Traditional journalism is becoming a “smaller part of people’s information mix,” the report says. The report also highlights major trends for the year:
- In an era of what the report claims as “shrinking ambitions”, news organizations are moving towards building audience niches.
- The news industry is becoming more aggressive in pursuing new economic models — they must find a way to “get consumers to pay for digital content.”
- Instead of engaging audiences in debates, resulting in polarization and oversimplification of issues, more journalists are now offering solutions and maintaining advocacies.
- The report predicts that as blogging enters a new era of greater recognition and importance, it will probably be faced with controversies and a “splintering (between) elites and non-elites over standards and ethics.”
Via NPR.
Online identity verification system OpenID gains steam as prominent web companies adopt its use.
Recently, AOL announced that it will implement the OpenID system for its 63 million subscribers. In the wake of that news, Digg’s Kevin Rose announced at a web conference in London that the popularity website will accept OpenID and become an OpenID provider.
“We want to give people the freedom to move around online and this is a way to do it,” Rose said.
Yahoo! and Microsoft have also become OpenID adopters.
Users of OpenID can identify themselves using a URI that they own (a blog or home page, for example). They can then log on to OpenID-enabled sites without registering or opening a new account — they only need to sign in once to an OpenID provider. This addresses the single sign-on problem that users encounter when signing up for various web services.solves
Big-name web companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft has also addressed the SSO problem by implementing identity systems in their infrastructure.
