Social media Citizen journalism Participatory media DIY content Micro content Community publishing Hyperlocal content We Media User-generated news So many names, with so many overlapping meanings. Which terms do you favor, and how would you define the ones you use?

Whew. Just finished the tail end of what turned out to be a couple of months of endless travel–and working. Some short trips planned, but nothing like the 15,000 plus miles I logged in June. That means more posts, more thinking–more often. Can’t wait for the jet lag to subside. PS I pick up my… Continue Reading

John Markoff’s NY Times’ story does a good job of explaining the participatory culture of the read/write web. Quotes and sound bites from many of the usual (emerging tech) suspects highlight ideas many Wrst Coasters are thinking–and living.

Free wireless. A yellow chair. A house. Who uses it? interaction designer anab jain documents her wifi universe. (Via Smart Mobs)

Personal milestone: First relative over age 11 with a blog– Billy Mernit’s Writing the Romantic Comedy (yep, he’s an expert.) Congrats, cuz.

Yep, China’s a big country. Lotsa people. Lotsa mobile phones. From Dan Farber, via Emergic, some numbers provided by a China Mobile general manager: * Mobile phone subscriptions in 2004: 340 million (15 percent growth year over year, 26 percent of the population in China) * Total number of wired and wireless subscriptions in China:… Continue Reading

Google Earth is very impressive. It’s a downloadable exe. that offers 3D graphics capabilities for the images…Try it and see.

Vlogging or video blogging– Mary Hodder writes: “Vlog-posts are little movies, or a post wrapped around a little movie. One cannot link from within a movie, but one can reference, remix, explore…As I discover vloggers, get to know their work, see what they are thinking about as they explore and forge ahead with their vlogging… Continue Reading

Pew study: Only 8 percent of the Americans interviewed in a new Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Report say they read news online because it’s free–and 73% say reading online news is more convenient. Of course, the web continues to move from the edge to the center–Key quotes: ” The internet… Continue Reading

It was today! I am in California, but Blue Jake and others took pix of this wonderful annual event. Flickr: Mermaid Flickr: mermaidparade Flickr: coneyisland (Via Viviane)