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A Eulogy For The NewStandard
It’s official, as of Friday April 27th 2007 The Newstandard (TNS) officially ceased operations. This is a significant loss for both the independent media ecology, and for citizens who use independent media to stay informed about current events and social issues.
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Living up to it’s name The Newstandard truly redefined what independent media can be. For several years TNS made good on its’ mission to provide “bold, hard-hitting daily news coverage, providing a vetted forum for the voices and issues often ignored in the establishment news arena…(while) managed by a collective of journalists and published by a reader-funded nonprofit organization”. A closure look at this mission reveals the multifarious ways TNS broke the independent media mold.
Indy Media Organizations and Their Web 2.0 Tools
Nonprofit and small for-profit public service oriented media organizations (Independent Media) are, after a delayed response, quickly developing Web 2.0 or “social web” tools.
After sticking to the old Web 1.0 practice of simply using the Web as a basic publishing platform, small media enterprises are now jumping head first into the Web 2.0 game, adapting new media tools like Digg.com and invoking the ethos of communities like YouTube and MySpace.
The Quick Rundown
Buzz Flash, TreeHugger, and Huffington Post have all launched Digg.com type
portals where citizens can submit and vote on current news headlines. BuzzFlash has BuzzFlash BUZZ, TreeHugger has Hugg, and Huffinton Post has HuffIt.
