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The Idea

Microblogs are changing the world: they are the world's first instant global mass media.

Especially they're making it possible to have near immediate feedback on events...

It's time to have in every city and village of the world at least one correspondent to inform people worldwide of what's going on there that could be of wider importance.

Creating a feedback loop that should interest all newspapers, radios, television studios and all stock exchanges as well...

I thought of this idea when I was...

Ever since I've first seen Twitter, I fell in love with the potential of microblogging.

I'm a fervent microblogger on

general
http://twitter.com
http://jaiku.com
http://pownce.com
http://yelago.com
http://beemood.com
http://yonkly.com


Chinese
http://fanfou.com
http://zuosa.com
http://komoo.cn

Indian
http://snockles.com

Singaporean
http://tiish.com

Italian
http://meemi.com
http://bloggino.com

Spanish
http://khaces.com
http://fritsi.com

Turkish
http://nolyo.com

French
http://noumba.net
http://tapioka.ca
http://frazr.com

Korean
http://playtalk.net
http://me2day.net

Japanese
http://feecle.jp
http://haru.fm

German
http://niimo.com
http://dukudu.de

Polish
http://blip.pl

Dutch
http://numpa.nl

Portuguese
http://gozub.com

Russian
http://smspr.ru

Arabic
http://watwet.com

Romanian
http://cirip.ro

Mexican
http://mexicodiario.com


Comments Posted

micco
micco Posted: May 19, 2008, 12:52 pm

What exactly is your role in this? Do you want to build a new microblogging service, recruit users to existing services, and/or index existing users based on geo location?

jansegers
jansegers Posted: May 19, 2008, 1:32 pm

Initiator of the idea. Maybe also reporter.

Feedback is especially important for stock exchange purposes, that's how newspapers came into existence.

I would like to gain some recognition as a multimedia consulltant, as webosopher in fact...

http://webosophy.ning.com

Kevin_Cox
Kevin_Cox Posted: May 20, 2008, 12:36 pm

So, what are you doing?

PhilipH
PhilipH Posted: May 20, 2008, 1:44 pm

There's possibly an idea in here somewhere, but at the moment I just see self-promotion. Are you aiming to recruit other such microblogging reporters into your network?

Tommaso
Tommaso Posted: May 20, 2008, 3:34 pm

Microblogging reporters are already on Twitter. At the moment Twitter is the only service for global mass media's news.

Btw: Bloggino isn't italian. It's French.

jansegers
jansegers Posted: May 22, 2008, 4:17 am

1° What am I doing ? at the moment just posting news through all of these microblogs. For today up to now, it were these postings:

Dams safe but risks remain: Official - http://www.china.org...content_15377125.htm

Zhang Yuejiao sworn in as WTO top court judge - http://www.china.org...content_15374434.htm

Bush apologizes over Koran shooting - http://www.china.org...content_15373702.htm

Coal stocks fall below safe level - http://www.china.org...content_15388966.htm

Zinc output may decline due to quake-damaged smelters - http://www.china.org...content_15389116.htm

Tibet reports two suspected HFMD cases (EV71 virus) - http://www.china.org...content_15373678.htm

Mad cow disease found in Netherlands - http://www.china.org...content_15373611.htm

Noncommunicable diseases now biggest killers: WHO - http://www.china.org...content_15345451.htm

Make a statement - http://www.floort.com/list.php

Firms to face fines for employing kids - http://www.china.org...content_15398220.htm

Obama faults McCain; Clinton mulls delegate fight - http://www.china.org...content_15399636.htm

Czech gov't approves main treaty on US radar base - http://www.china.org...content_15404721.htm

Russia's economic progress to fuel cooperation with China - http://www.china.org...content_15406864.htm

China starts biggest ocean expedition - http://www.china.org...content_15415625.htm

Dutch government won't use computers for elections anymore - http://webwereld.nl/ref/newsletter/51150 NL

Le Littré est désormais en ligne - http://www.journaldu...rmais-en-ligne.shtml

10 télécoms en chiffres - http://www.journaldu...-fiches-pays/1.shtml

2° The idea is to get microbloggers to consider their own potential for international news broadcasting: I can't do it just by myself...

3° Bloggino.com French ?

PhilipH
PhilipH Posted: May 24, 2008, 7:08 am

Having searched out some of your posts, I'm afraid I can't see ANY value in what you're doing. Posting a few carefully selected links to a forum to highlight issues other members may be interested in? Fine. See the CH forums for many useful example of that. Keeping a blog in which you write your own news analysis articles from cited sources? Also fine. Spamming multiple microblog sites with a link to every news article written on a news site? Not fine.

If I want to read news, I'll go to a news site (and not one under the thumb of the restrictive Chinese government!). If I found a microblog consisting of nothing but indiscriminate links to other sites, I'd leave right away.

Checoslovaco
Checoslovaco Posted: May 25, 2008, 1:43 am

Too many links mate! You do not really expect me to read all that stuff?

jansegers
jansegers Posted: May 25, 2008, 10:45 am

@PhilipH/Checoslovaco

I'm indeed always linking. Normally to stuff that can be important, occasionally to a site that can be usefull and sometimes to a funny video.

China is become the first international economic power, whether we like it or don't. The vision of China on the world is therefore becoming more and more important.

Isn't the idea of semantic web that important news will come to us ? Microblogging will be one of the channels it will travel through.

Electicism isn't necessary indiscriminate.

If you don't like the way I'm covering the news, don't follow my microblog lifestreaming. It's as easy as that.

I'm quite sure there are people out there who just as me prefer the observe the news rather than fabricate our own.

I view my role as just that of a dynamic reinforcer of any news I find to have more implications - being it socially or economically.

You love it or you hate it. You bother or you don't. Take it or leave it.

That's up to you.

But why don't just pick the bits that say you something, like in a newspaper ?

jansegers
jansegers Posted: May 25, 2008, 11:30 am

In fact, what I'm doing is just one way of using micrologs for spreading news items around.

I don't have the pretention of being the best guy for the job...

(on the other hand, I'm the one already sharing all the news deemed to be somehow important... )

Don't let me stop you or anyone else to do a better job on it !

noelius
noelius Posted: May 27, 2008, 2:23 am

I LOVE the idea... but instead of microblogging, I would prefer blogging.

jansegers
jansegers Posted: May 27, 2008, 5:12 am

@noelius

I believe that blogging is emancipating since the introduction of microblogging. I don't have a lot to say myself, I like pinpointing people to information, that's it.

The difference with blogging is that I microblog for the all world, China - India - Japan - Russia - USA - Europe - South-America - Africa on the local microblogs.

The intrusion of the English (and sometimes French) language postings by me is limited to those 140 characters at any one time.

In the public timelines of busy microblogs it are mere blips. Yet for some interesting blips to information worldwide available.

At the moment I'm quoting a lot of the Chinese views on the world, because the main emphasis of the general media is normally Anglo-Saxon.

Let's say the Chinese viewpoint is also becoming more and more important for businesses and decision makers.

Microblogging is different from blogging, because no one is aware of any new blog item, while at any time some people are aware of a now 'tweet'.

Kevin_Cox
Kevin_Cox Posted: May 28, 2008, 11:15 am

RSS

jansegers
jansegers Posted: May 28, 2008, 11:31 am

Same problem as with simple blogging: your site has to be know first before people use your RSS feeds.

Microblogging gives minimal exposure for any message you post. A window of opportunity only equaled by multiple interaction like blog comment postings.

Microblogs combine the exposure of Digg/Reddit with the easy of IM and the potential mass audience of a blog.

Plus they permit an even easier way of following than RSS feeds: you don't need a RSS reader.

lrx1971
lrx1971 Posted: May 30, 2008, 1:28 pm

Good idea. Similar to OhMyNews?

 

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