GroundReport: Beijing Reporter Contest for the Olympics 2008

GroundReport, founded by our friend Rachel Sterne is a social news platform that democratizes the media by helping everyone get involved. You can find world news, politics, business and opinion from reporters on the ground, across the globe. On GroundReport, anyone can publish news stories and photos, rate quality and earn a revenue share based on traffic. Contributors will be paid via PayPal every month. To know more about GroundReport, you can watch an interview with Rachel.

GroundReport is now looking for original video news reports related to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The official announcement can be found here. Videos must take place in Beijing, be in English, last 5 minutes or shorter. Your video could win you $500 and global exposure. Through August 31, 2008, you can submit your video by registering here: http://www.groundreport.com/register.php.

July 13, 2008 · Filed Under Media, Olympics

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A Lesson From BBC.com Chinese Media Sites Should Learn

Ashley Highfield, the BBC director of new media and technology, said all future BBC digital output and services will focus on three concepts - “share”, “find” and “play”.

New BBC.com was officially launched at 27 February, 2008. Guardian commented:

“…(BBC) plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com…”

Chinese Internet has been trying hard to catch up with the western industry, Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter etc have been studied and discussed since the first day when they went to public. It seems that people now have understood web2.0, and tens of video-sharing, image-sharing, micro-blogging and SNS can prove that. BBC.com was unblocked in March after years of strict access. It is a great news for those who complains about the censorship in China, but disappointedly there are very few of us has realized that there is much more we can talk about about the BBC.com.

More and more Chinese media sites now provides blog service, even offer video-sharing feature to attract more users and proclaim they are now into web2.0, which is really a good thing to hear. However, if we could spend some time on BBC.com, you must be amazed by what they are doing. Chinese Internet should learn from BBC.com: Read more

May 25, 2008 · Filed Under Media, Web 2.0