In the last six months, cybernauts carried out a breakthrough in matter of Information economy. For the last century, Information has been the private area of Mass Medias and worldwide news service companies - such as Reuters or the AFP.
The evolution of Internet towards Web 2.0 allows internet users to provide information content which can be spread all over the world without the help of Mass Medias or news companies. Henceforth anybody can report what he have seen and receive an immediate feedback about the information he provided.
The channel of the information provided by this new content provider are no more limited to text (blogs) but can be audio (podcast) or video files. With the evolution of cell phones and the decrease of digital camrecorder prices, anybody can record the video of major events he happened to be part of. If these events worth it they can send it on the web almost immediately on the web and receive immediate feedback.
The first example of the phenomenon appeared with Asia’s 2004 Tsunami. But it seems that it turns into a common practive (e.g. last autumn riots in France) and that traditional mass media are getting more and more interested in this. For exemple, worldwide first information TV channel CNN created I-Report and Al Gore participated in the creation of Current TV - which aim is to be the first TV channel “created by the people who watch it”.
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