Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Old news at NowPublic.com


news from Shanghai

The internet is bubbling again. When you belong to the digital vanguard you might have noticed that the "citizens journalism" site got 10.6 million US dollars in funding. It claims to have 120,000 volunteers in place, able to make the site into a real news wire.

Of course I checked out who their people were in Shanghai and found only news that was more than three weeks old. The news at their home page looks not very to the point, as they only report very smallish incidents that would at best have made it to the local newspaper.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes your article has hit the nail on the head there. The only thing I would add, is that there is quite a bit of censorship, with regard to the middle-east and its a rather small incestuous group of people. There are to be fair, two decent contributors though.