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In the spirit of ‘proper journalism’ here’s the news from a reputable source.
Having just finished We The Media, I’ll be interested to see what he has planned regarding citizen journalism.

Berkeley Lab physicists are applying the techniques used to study sub atomic particles to map the surfaces of old cylinder and 78 recordings. The R&D process they have developed allows the material to be digitised minus any surface scratches and dirt. The article I saw was on Research News, but there’s also a page by the physicists themselves here.

Ian sent me an interesting article in Wired today about the importance of meta data in a world where we are all creating an increasing amount of difficult to categorise data.

This came about after I started discussing an idea I’d had about the problem of meta data creation yesterday. For a large organsiation, putting great swathes of content online is one thing – allocating resource to tag it all is another!

I’d been thinking about the Wikipedia approach after a presentation from Jimmy Wales earlier this week and figured ‘why not let the users do it?’ After all – not only are you granting access to your content, you’re allowing communities to build around it and develop a sense of ownership as a consequence. I’ve no idea if this would work, but then again, neither did Jimmy when he launched Wikipedia – and look at what’s happened there!