An interview with me was broadcasted today (27th July 2006) at CNN at 7.40AM EST. The interview focused on my site for citizens in Lebanon and Israel to share and tell their stories via cell phones, but also on my work here at Stanford to developed for the user simple posting techniques for cell phones to any CMS-system.
I also wrote a longer blog entry on the future of the new improved media, or as some like to put it citizen media. I prefer the new improved media.
Cell phones today transmit audio, video, graphics, photographs and text. When combined with the proper web application, cell phones enable any citizen in any country of any background to publish information and share it with the world. The importance of social networking cannot be over exaggerated. The answer is pretty simple. The philosophy behind the UN and the European Union is to build friendships and relations between countries to prevent them from getting into arguments/disputes that end up in wars. It is a known fact that you don’t, hopefully, attack your friend. What is so cool today is that modern technology enables borderless and “blind†communication between all individuals, especially when you enable wireless posting via cell phones such as SMS and MMS. You can speak to anyone, anywhere at anytime. Why not use it? The New York Times columnist Thomas L Friedman writes about it in his book “The World is Flat†even though I think that the conclusion is even broader than he concludes in his book.
You will find the full blog entry here:
http://inthefieldonline.net/blog/2006/07/27/the-future-of-the-new-improved-media/
