Wednesday, February 13, 2008

A small seismic measure of transformation to come in citizen journalism


Robert Hardie, Northcliffe Media content strategy director, said that geo-tagging is intended to make accessing editorial and classified content more user-friendly.



I can't say this particular company or publisher is announcing a

revolution, however, this geo-tagging has been on my mind lately. From

the beta-testing I'm doing with Seero

(live broadcasting that " target="_blank"pushes" geo-tagged sites to viewers during

broadcasts) to yahoo and google maps, geo-tagging is the new black. Geo-tagging and mobiles and hand-helds go together,  as we've seen in movies if not in taxi-cabs. Have you ridden in a cab lately that *didn't* have GPS and the friendly voice of "Miss Direction" to guide the way?

We are getting ready to upgrade our back-end on Creatingcommunityconnections and geo-tags are in the plans. I'll be writing more on this, and see it as a persistent thread for the year at least.


A small seismic measure of transformation to come in citizen journalism

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