Week 6: Quinn, S. (2008). “New Tools for Reporting”
Web 2.0 is creating communication opportunities for anyone with a modem. New business prospects are popping up for entrepreneurs all over the web.
The Week 6 reading focuses on these prospects and opportunities, and the authenticity dangers of the web. The dodgy Wikipedia example in the reading is similar to warnings in some Deakin subjects’ unit guides, ‘We will not accept definitions, examples or quotes from Wikipedia’.
The reading stated on niche publishing, ‘One example is pvrblog.com. Its single author, Matt Haughey, makes about $US 40,000 a year. Said Ben Hammersley: “He now owns this subject [personal video recorders, or pvr] on the Internet, and mass media cannot compete on this subject.”’
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That’s an extreme amount of money compared to what users on orble.com and citizen journalists are making (referring to Week 5 reading and response). The ‘blog’ has expanded into a giant communication and money-making method people can use and abuse as they want.
Media use video and podcasts over the net as a major form of communication. The internet is a blessing for some smaller community media organisations. For example, Syn FM (90.7) in Melbourne, has a banner that reads ‘Syn: Radio, TV, Online, Print’. Syn uses the internet to podcast and publish news to a much wider audience than otherwise would have been possible.
