6. October 2009 by ohowell.

Dan Gillmor’s new project is called Mediactive, a blog that will create a “User’s Guide to Democratized Media”.  The blog will result in a book to be published later.  At the same time it is an ongoing conversation about new media, journalism, participation and eBooks, and a public writing project.  It is certainly not the first blog that is designed to become a book, but prehaps one of the most interesting.

The core of the project is to show every user of online media how to become a creator of media with their own means and following their own agenda and interests.  The very essence of civic media and citizen journalism.

The project is based upon previous work by Gillmor at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Principles for a New Media Literacy.

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25. September 2009 by admin.

MIT Technology Review reports that Asus is planning to launch a new eReader that can befolded, and will not use e-Ink technology, but will be in color. The device is aimed to ride the wave of success of the netbook, launched by Asus. Readers of ebooks price the e-Ink devices despite of being B&W because they are easy to read. But the cost of the Asus eReader could be as low as $165, a serious alternative to the normal e-Ink Reader today. The Asus model also is planned to include a series of characteristics of a laptop, like VoIP via Skype, email and a browser.

TR article is here:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24097/

An article about the color eReader by Fujitsu:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22332/

Asus website: www.wepc.com

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