Citizen journalism = NPR plus open source

Jay Rosen has released the details of a new open source driven news reporting project. Named NewAssignment.Net this  aims to
.. use open source methods to develop good assignments andhelp bring them to completion; it employs professional journalists tocarry the project home and set high standards so the work holds up.There are accountability and reputation [...]

Fall of the Hit

Chris Anderson’s take on the demise of hit phenomena reads like a manifesto for user-generated-content philosophy
The mass market is yielding to a million minimarkets. Hits will always be with us, but they have lost their monopoly. Blockbusters must now compete with an infinite number of niche offerings, which can be distributed just as easily. [...]

Open source Java - Will it matter?

Sun is a great company and we all owe them a lot for the kind of work they have done. Though in recent times they have been doing lot of soul-searching and trying to solve their identity issue. Are they a systems company, software company or services company? Or more importantly what they want to [...]

Wiki which evolves with your relationship

Found this on the Mediawiki mailing list -
What happens when Roberta Jones gets married and becomes ‘Roberta Chang’a.k.a. ‘Bobby Chang’?The next time she visits the wiki, ‘Bobby Chang 395234′ will not be found inthe user table and the AutoLogin script will create a new user.  Poor Bobbywill now have to manage a double identity. [...]

At the heart of change

If you visit MySQL conference webpage you will find a powerful quote by Tim O’Reilly at the top of the page-

There is lot of truth in that statement. Operating systems and databases are crucial component of any large architectural change. Linux and MySQL are at the heart of that change. Driving hard by using combination [...]

We don’t have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source

Vew few software company CEO can be this frank :

If an open source product gets good enough, we’ll simply take it. Take [the web server software] Apache: once Apache got better than our own web server, we threw it away and took Apache. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – [...]

Deal or no deal - open source style

The way companies buy bulk keywords you can get very funny results sometimes. Like the following ad when I searched on keyword “open source” -

I remember seeing Ebay links as well.

Piggy Banking using semantic techniques

This is something I have learned in last few years. If you can think of a new way to solve a difficult problem, there is a strong possibility that somebody somewhere must have thought about the same problem. That\’s just the way probability works. Sample size of people doing out-of-the-box ideation process is growing [...]

Democracy - Internet TV

Never underestimate what bunch of kids can do - Democracy. Building a free and open source internet TV platform.
It looks similar to FireAnt though.

Running FM station with only $1

I like the fresh and no-holds barred approach of Rajdeep Sardesai’s IBN channel. Using a mixture of aggressive tone, sting led scoops, limited citizen journalism and lot of inexperienced news anchors this channel stands out from the pack with it’s freshness.
While watching this [...]