http://lojoconnect.com/2008/04/25/the-locative-revolution-is-your-newsroom-on-board/ location-based technology + journalism Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://lojoconnect.com/2008/04/25/the-locative-revolution-is-your-newsroom-on-board/#comment-26 Locative, or location based, news and media content | the earley edition Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:24:50 +0000 http://lojoconnect.com/2008/04/25/the-locative-revolution-is-your-newsroom-on-board/#comment-26 [...] The MediaShift Idea Lab have linked to a great list of examples of mainstream media using location-based technology in news delivery. [...] […] The MediaShift Idea Lab have linked to a great list of examples of mainstream media using location-based technology in news delivery. […]

]]> http://lojoconnect.com/2008/04/25/the-locative-revolution-is-your-newsroom-on-board/#comment-20 John McClelland Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:39:31 +0000 http://lojoconnect.com/2008/04/25/the-locative-revolution-is-your-newsroom-on-board/#comment-20 Alternatives to Microshaft Windows will not quietly go away as did the superior Beta video system just because VHS was more widely marketed. I'm appalled that organizations that claim to serve the general public welfare are so easily sucked into exclusive sweetheart deals with certain vendors. Yes, AP is a private business and can properly do legal business with whomever it chooses. But this makes it easier yet for public agencies to defend deals that make _public records_, required by law to be digitally available, subject to a requirement to use proprietary software that runs only on Windoze. Pfui! Alternatives to Microshaft Windows will not quietly go away as did the superior Beta video system just because VHS was more widely marketed. I’m appalled that organizations that claim to serve the general public welfare are so easily sucked into exclusive sweetheart deals with certain vendors. Yes, AP is a private business and can properly do legal business with whomever it chooses. But this makes it easier yet for public agencies to defend deals that make _public records_, required by law to be digitally available, subject to a requirement to use proprietary software that runs only on Windoze. Pfui!

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