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| NowPublic Gets $10.6 Million For Crowd Sourced News |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 11:55 pm |
| Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Nowpublic |
| extensively on the subject. NowPublic is a website that provides these tools to the public so they can report on what is going on around them. Many other news startups also incorporate these tools in different ways, such as NewsVine, OutsideIn, Digg, CitizenBay, recently Topix, and the now defunct Backfence. On the spectrum of citizen |
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| Pilgrim's Picks for July 30 |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 10:56 am |
| Tags: General, Auctionads, Carat, Copyright Infringement, Icrossing, Media Whiz, New Zealand, Nowpublic, Proxicom, Sun Microsystems |
| Citizen journalism site NowPublic raises $10.6 million - just don’t call them “citizen journalists.” Sun Microsystems has plans to release important corporate news over the internet first. Will the SEC let them? If you get caught “attempting” to in infringe a copyright, you could go to jail. AuctionAds |
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| Media Democracy Rejuvenation Day Coming Soon |
| Published: October 22, 2007, 1:45 am |
| Tags: Vancouver, Culture, Independent, Media Democracy Day, News, Nowpublic, Observer |
| by Steve AndersonModeled after EarthDay, MDD is a decentralized event that occurs in several different cities. read more |
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| The Monaco Media Forum -- King Context: The Rise & Rise of Social Media |
| Published: November 7, 2007, 7:20 pm |
| Tags: Advertising, Attendees, Barry Diller, Bevy, Commerce, Context, Conversation, Executive, Fantastic, Followed, Global, Highly, Includes, Invite Only, Leonard Brody, Monaco, Monaco Media Forum, Money Amp Amp Stuff, Nowpublic, Organized, Prince Albert, Program, Relevant, Socialmedi |
| NowPublic's Leonard Brody will be representing in Monaco this week. I just spoke to him and he said it's shaping up to be an interesting few days: read more |
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| NowPublic Weekly Roundup: Nov 9, 2K7 |
| Published: November 9, 2007, 5:06 pm |
| Tags: 3gp, App, Brian Kennedy, Digicam, Helsinki, Jordan, Musharraf, Nowpublic, Pakistan, Phonecam, Press Release, Rob Walker, Sidebar, Weekly Roundup, Widget |
| As per pseudo-tradition, here is another weekly roundup of goings-on here in the NowPublic universe. read more |
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| NowPublic's Top Cities |
| Published: November 13, 2007, 8:17 pm |
| Tags: Canada, Atlanta, British Columbia, California, Chicago, Georgia, Illinois, India, New York, Ontario, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington, Angeles, Columbia, Culture, Delhi, London, Mumbai, Nowpublic, United Kingdom, United States, Visitors |
| "I just checked our stats to see where NP visitors are coming from and here, for your viewing pleasure, are our top 10 cities: read more |
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| NowPublic: 10th biggest VC financing in Canada this Quarter |
| Published: November 14, 2007, 1:06 pm |
| Tags: Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver, Equity, Funding, Invested, Lagging, Money Amp Amp Stuff, Nowpublic, Province, Third Quarter, Venture Financings |
| "Brent Holliday, a partner with Greenstone Venture Partners, pointed out that . read more |
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| Yahoo! Agrees to Pay Prisoners' Families |
| Published: November 14, 2007, 12:53 pm |
| Tags: California, China, Agrees, Chinese Dissidents, Congressional Representatives, Families, Government, Information, Jerry Yang, Journalist, Members, Nowpublic, Politics, Prisoners, Yahoo |
| "Congressional representatives made it clear to Yahoo! read more |
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| NowPublic Weekly Roundup: Nov 23, 2K7 |
| Published: November 23, 2007, 2:38 pm |
| Tags: Brooklyn, Broadway, Gorilla, Nowpublic, Press Release, Sidr, Strike, Transit, Weekly Roundup |
| Welcome one and all to another NowPublic weekly roundup. In this episode:French transit strike coverage.The lights go down on Broadway: crowdsoucing in action.Unleash your inner Ebert!Typhoon Sidr: a one-man news...read more |
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| Weekly Roundup: Dec 7, 2K7 |
| Published: December 7, 2007, 4:49 pm |
| Tags: Jordan, Ryan, Brian A Kennedy, Entertainment, Jarrett, Kaitlin, Nowpublic, Rob Walker, Vlog, Weekly Roundup |
| Welcome to another NowPublic weekly roundup, where we share the very best of this week's stuff. Today we have...ScienceDave meets UnculturedMontreal Massacre: 18 years later12 days of Newsmas: Win a video cameraNew Front Page stuffGrammy RundownA ninjaA menacing secret...read more |
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| Super Tuesday Exit Polls: Right Here |
| Published: February 5, 2008, 5:22 pm |
| Tags: Albert, Arizona, New Hampshire, Access, Analysts, Consortium, Election, Error, Exit, Futures, Leaked, Miliron, Nowpublic, Politics, Politisite, Polls, Pollster, Predictions, Primary, Quarantine, Release, Restricts, Results, States, Super Tuesday, Survey, Tuesday |
| Super Tuesday Exit Polls: Right Here 7:00pm We will be reporting exit polling from network consortium in the next few minutes Politisite: What we are seeing in early exit polls is that the arguing...read more |
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| VIDEOS-Smithsonian's Mastadon Hunt Bone Heaps & Mitochondrial DNA (Maternal DNA) Prove Caucasians Were First Americans |
| Published: March 13, 2008, 2:17 pm |
| Tags: Estonia, Cheap Weapons, Eesti, Finno Ugric, Flurl Videos, Kenniwick Man, Now Public, Nowpublic, Pazyryk, Podblanc, Prussian Blue, Prussian Blue American Duo, Russian Beheading, Scythian, Swedish Saga, Tocharian, We Show, Weshow, White Mummies, White Now, White Power Mp3, Worl |
| Two series of VIDEOS in multi-parts. The digs have been in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Virginia. Salutrian (neolithic French) double-edge flint knives have been discovered covered with red ochre, and...read more |
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| 'Golden Girl' Dame Kelly Holmes opens the Hildenborough Farmers' Market |
| Published: June 10, 2008, 6:58 am |
| Tags: Environment, Kelly Holmes Tonbridge Nowpublic Hildenborough Wild Boar Vegetables Farming |
| Now Public contributor Beaulieu has been 'at the scene' but found more than she bargained for:- A new Farmers' Market, in the small village of Hildenborough, 'put on the map because of Dame Kelly Holmes living...read more |
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| NowPublic Rebirth: Weighted Crowdsourcing, Lifestream Updates, and More |
| Published: June 16, 2008, 9:02 am |
| Tags: News, Web 2 0, Citizen Journalism, Social Networking, Crowdsourcing, Nowpublic, Rank System |
| and citizen journalism site NowPublic has relaunched its website and added a few new features. With this rebirth, NowPublic is hoping to set the new standard for citizen journalism. How’s that? With a trust and credibility system. Upon launch, NowPublic did a few things that traditional media hadn’t yet done–allow more open |
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| NowPublic: Reuters 2.0? |
| Published: June 26, 2008, 4:05 pm |
| Tags: Army, Nowpublic, Citizen Journalism, Reuters, Site, Ears, Leonard Brody, Eyes, Word, Users, Current Events, Founder, Tech Amp Amp Biz, Original Reporting |
| " Leonard Brody, founder of NowPublic, rejects the term "citizen journalism," which has often been applied to his business. "What [our contributors] do is not journalism. We don't call it that and never have." In spite of that, he did construct NowPublic to serve as a new...read more |
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