news without censorship
Filed in archive Technology on April 10, 2004
Patrick sends in this BBC report, it claims that news will be properly distributed by file sharing networks by 2010.
"In his vision, people around the world would post stories via anonymous P2P services like those used to swap songs."
"They would cover issues currently ignored by the major news services, said Prof anderson."
"Currently, only news that's reckoned to be of interest to Americans and Western Europeans will be syndicated because that's where the money is," he told the BBC World Service programme, Go Digital.
"But if something happens in Peru that's of interest to viewers in China and Japan, it won't get anything like the priority for syndication.
"If you can break the grip of the news syndication services and allow the news collector to talk to the radio station or local newspaper then you can have much more efficient communications."
I guess this is the big vision of weblogs anyway. This weblog for instance is (for reasons I'm not aware of) banned in China and Saudi Arabia. Empowering people with publishing tools will change the media landscape, I guess there is no doubt, it's a question of how exactly and when.
"They would cover issues currently ignored by the major news services, said Prof anderson."
"Currently, only news that's reckoned to be of interest to Americans and Western Europeans will be syndicated because that's where the money is," he told the BBC World Service programme, Go Digital.
"But if something happens in Peru that's of interest to viewers in China and Japan, it won't get anything like the priority for syndication.
"If you can break the grip of the news syndication services and allow the news collector to talk to the radio station or local newspaper then you can have much more efficient communications."
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Response from:
Fons
(04/10/04 11:31am)
Response from:
Dragos
(04/11/04 2:36am)
just curious: how do you know about the banning?
Response from:
Fons
(04/11/04 5:09am)
There are different techniques for blocking, but in the most basic (and mostly used) one you cannot get traffic from a defined url. You find that out when you 1. do not get the page; 2. do get the page by using a proxy; 3. Check the traffic to a url and see where it stops: the censors use a few servers for this purpose.
Response from:
TJ
(04/12/04 1:11am)
Fons, indeed it would be very interesting to see demand for news or stories as well. Unfortunately news are far from being traded like stocks, where goods are standardized and ways to purchase/sell too. And I guess it won't change anytime...
Response from:
bader
(06/29/06 9:32am)
Well, your blog isn't banned from Saudi Arabia.
I'm there and surfing your site :D
I'm there and surfing your site :D
Response from:
TJ
(06/29/06 10:09am)
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That is a good sign - thanks for letting me know!
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Guess the future needs somebody in Peru who realizes he/she is sitting on a story that is worthwhile for Japan.
That might be a challenge.