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Lecture on Citizen Journalism

Perhaps it was a farce: we were there to talk about participatory media and we ended up it like a lecture forcing majority of our students to suggest ‘the class should be more participatory’. But nevertheless, the class was better than we have thought and the students, though very young at around 16-17, were much [...]

Every Nepali is a Journalist!

Have you ever heard a similar phrase? If not, consider yourself a novice in the citizen journalism. Every Citizen is a Journalist is the motto of the pioneer citizen journalism site, OhMyNews of South Korea. OhMyNews, successful financially and journalistically, has some 30,000 citizen reporters who can write news for it and earn a few [...]

For Bloggers & Journalists

Let me share two emails I received today. One is from someone called Mark and its about a free blog host. I haven’t tried it yet but the advertisement suggests its promising:
http://www.impulseblog.com
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Bloggers in Mainstream Media on Blogs

Nepali blogosphere has just been created as a year ago, there was merely one or two blogs run by Nepalis. Blogs was a new word of technology. But now, the scene is changing with many, specially journalists, jumping into blogging. And, the journalist bloggers are not only blogging, they are looking to use mainstream media [...]

Changing Trends in Online Media

… of Nepal (obviously)!
It looks life Year 2006 will redefine the online media in Nepal. With the popularity of blogging growing in 2005 and Google Adsense giving a few bucks to the website owners (even there is rise in the online advertising), mainstream news sites are also trying to go up in competition.
On the eve [...]