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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Chris Capone has recently redesigned his website (as we mentioned in this article a few weeks back), and now Chris is doing his rounds on TV, letting the world know that he's the super cute Bearish grandson of the infamous gangster, Al Capone. Head on over to his blog and check out a pair of video clips in which Chris gets interviewed with Fox. This is very cool. For more about Chris, click here and check out the archived articles on PlanetBears.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Before there was the net, one would get home from work, turn on the TV and watch the 6 o'clock news. They'd start you off with the 'OH MY GOD' news such as someone committing genocide, or some star or politician that has fallen from grace, or about some war in some part of the world... then a commercial... then they come back and then talk about your local news; what's happening in your little town... then another commercial... then they would come back and chat about the Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Weather... commercial... then you end the news by watching all the anchor people at the desk smiling, cracking a couple of jokes, and then they inform you that you can catch all the news once again at 11.

Those days are dead...

With the net, the news is everywhere at all times of the days... everyone is walking around with a camera catching everything, then uploading it. No more is the news dictated to us... we are forming the news. We are there, we are the I-Reporters.

And there's more and more sites that are allowing people to add the news, such as Wikinews, updated as the news is happening. However, Wikinews is moderated, filtered and there's tons of people adding stuff while others are deleting what's added. What's much more interesting are all these 'I the Reporter' sites that are appearing. CNN was one of the very first to initiate this ~ they bought I-Report.com that they opened in March '08 and you can easily spend hours just sifting thru the images and videos. Their tag line? Unedited. Unfiltered. News.

And then there are others who have been following suit. ABC with I-Caught, Fox with uReport and MSNBC's FirstPerson.

No longer is news dictated to us... news has been free from its old format... the news is immediate, and it's shaky and raw from some brave soul who was close enough to the story and had a camera to capture it.