Tag Archives: Picnic 2008

MoM discussion: Should we pay for events?

Arno de Natris | 07 October 2008, 4:25 pm | 9 comments | tags: , , ,

Trying to provoke a discussion here. Why do conferences and other events costs so much money? All access to PICNIC would have costed you more than €1200, getting involved in BlOG08 conference €195, with a discount still €95. ‘Ridiculous’, says MoM coordinator Geert Lovink, ‘these events shouldn’t cost more than €20.’ Edial Dekker, one of the organisers of

Picnic 2008 report: Surprising Africa

Guido van Diepen | 29 September 2008, 1:42 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Citizen journalism in Africa

‘Bring the world to Africa and bring Africa to the world.’ (Gisel Hiscock, talking at Surprising Africa)

Hiscock, one of speakers at the Surprising Africa conference, held a lecture about Google’s interest in giving information-access to the one billion Africans. Apart from giving them access to information, these same Africans need a way to share their…

PICNIC 08 – “Homophily Can Make You Stupid” by Ethan Zuckerman

Liliana Bounegru | 27 September 2008, 2:14 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,

In a presentation given yesterday at Picnic for the Bloggers Lab, organized by the European Journalism Centre, Ethan Zuckerman brought up an interesting concept that has quite remotely been discussed over the

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