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Are cellphones the thin client of the World Wide Web or a part of the World Wide Web?
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I yesterday submitted a position paper to the W3c Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries even though the discussion is valid for the whole mobile web discussion. The main conclusion is that we should of policy and technology constraints discuss whether a mobile web really exist:

When these issues – both on the handset, but most of all on the network side – are resolved then we might start to think of “one web”, until then I think it is better to think of it as ‘different webs yet interacting’. Regardless, cellphones will play an essential part in the future, and especially the exploding use of cellphones in the developing world will force this to happen.

As for applications and generally speaking we will see a lot of social media cellphone applications emerge and cellphones will be used as interaction devices with the web, as well as, when the platform is ready, part of the World Wide Web.

You will find the full document here.

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Ethics of bloggers
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Nicholas Carr is writing about the ethics of blogging in a way I haven’t thought of that much before. I think his post is excellent, and brings up some issues which need to be discussed in the blogosphere. I have for a long time been firm on stating that we need “some” structure and praxis in the blogosphere, and I have discussed similar issues when talking about The Future of the New Improved Media.

The post at RoughType you will find here:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/10/a_glass_house.php

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Article: Stanford Fellow Imagines Every Cell Phone as Citizen Media Outlet
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Mark Glaser at MediaShift PBS met me some time ago and we spoke on the subject of citizen media and the future of it. I truly believe cell phones are the right way to go here if combined with the proper business model.

Key quote from article:
"The key here is that the media organizations need to realize they are losing control. They can’t really control [the news] now because people are posting this stuff to other blogs. I think it would be better to merge traditional reporting with citizen media rather than have a [totally] new media.

To take the best of the old fashioned news organizations and bring in the power of the bloggers, because you have so many people investigating. Mix them and you have an extremely good organization and you’ll have content that’s really important in finding out the truth." — Erik Sundelof, Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University

The interview is found here: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/07/digging_deeperstanford_fellow.html

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