Coulson Filters » Journalism http://quoi9.net/english Search, Social Media & New Web Business Models ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:26:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 France24 big in Japan http://quoi9.net/english/2007/03/12/france24-big-in-japan/ http://quoi9.net/english/2007/03/12/france24-big-in-japan/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:31:49 +0000 coulson http://quoi9.net/english/2007/03/12/france24-big-in-japan/ france24.gifFrance24 – the round the clock TV & Internet news network touted as the “French CNN” – online since December has released figures claiming 3 million visits were made to their website during the last 3 weeks of 2006. Announcing the numbers, Alain de Pouzilhac, France 24′s chairman, said “I’m not happy with those figures, I’m over the moon.”
While commentators had jeered at relatively low financial backing compared to the CNN and BBC budgets, it seems France24 are quietly creating their own corner of international news media – on the cheap(er). In Japan, it is the number one international news site on the internet, according to Nielsen figures. In the U.K. and Germany, France 24 on the Web was third placed after CNN and BBC World, but ahead of Al Jazeera, while in the U.S. it was fourth placed. The News website is in French, English and Arabic.

“I think we are profiting from the credibility problems CNN has had because of the Iraq war,” De Pouzilhac opined. “People want to see how we report the news.”

via | Variety.com

related article France 24/24 en ligne

]]> http://quoi9.net/english/2007/03/12/france24-big-in-japan/feed/ 0 La Politique 2.0 http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/17/translation-french-presidential-elections/ http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/17/translation-french-presidential-elections/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:58:06 +0000 coulson http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/17/translation-french-presidential-elections/ french_election-2007.jpg With less than 100 days to go to the first round of the French Presidential elections, France2 along with Google Vidéo France has opened a website elections.france2.fr dedicated to the campaign. Along with a selection of the main stories from the biggest public daily news channel here in France, the site will also be showing amateur content sent in by viewers eager to play a part in the debate.

This is a major inroad from mainstream media. In a country where 9 million people consult at least one blog a month and half of those leave comments, the media can no longer afford to ignore the rapid growth of the French blogosphere, said to be the largest in Europe with the highest level of ‘internaute’ participation.

Neither, of course, can the politicians. It will come as no surprise that the principal candidates have all been busy in this domain. None more so than the candidate for the socialist party. According to Yves-Marie Cann of French pollster Ifop “Ségolène Royal has built her political strength outside the Socialist Party with her Web site ‘Desirs d’Avenir‘”

Desirsdavenir.org has coordinated over 700 local comities, the latest one has just been opened in Second Life! In a video placed on DailyMotion, Ségolène Royal inaugurates the 748th comity saying ‘…there will be participative debates about the presidential project… so come here in number and you will find me here” !
No virtual stone shall be left unturned, et pourquoi pas ?

As for Nicolas Sarkozy leader and candidate for the UMP, there is a flashy, professional looking site sarkozy.fr complete with a TV station – NSTV, a large digital clock countdown to the big day is displayed in milliseconds, there are podcasts and words & music to ‘go get ‘em sarko’ songs etc.

Politics meets web 2.0 what do you get? No clues now….. Politique2 – a new personalised start page inspired by the popular Netvibes. Syndicating over 850 political websites & blogs, hopefully it manages some neutrality in their presentation, it does seem pretty well pieced together.

Talking of neutrality, I should mention bayrou.fr, the website of François Bayrou, as he himself seldom forgets to mention his ‘mise à l’écart’ by the French media only interested, according to the UDF candidate, in a two horse race.

Even a quick glance at each of the 3 candidates’ websites is revealing in their stark portrayal of given clichés: Désirs d’Avenir is soft in appearance with clouds dissipating behind the title. Sarkozy.fr is more – business in the city, web 2.0 going on (le)web 3.0. Bayrou.fr, the candidate from the Midi-Pyrenees, is – feet on the ground, a little austere – more web 2.0 going on web 1.0.

sources – L’Atelier infodunet Neteco second life address SLObserver

For more precise information about the French political blogosphere see the Ifop-panel Maximiles report on the 2006 – 2007 presidential net-campaigne.

]]> http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/17/translation-french-presidential-elections/feed/ 5 Signs of life after print http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/06/signs-of-life-after-print/ http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/06/signs-of-life-after-print/#comments Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:09:02 +0000 coulson http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/06/signs-of-life-after-print/ The first week of 2007 was the week that saw the world’s oldest newspaper (361 years) cease to exist…in print that is. That’s right, the Swedish daily – Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, lives on…on-line.
This was posted by Jeff Jarvis on his popular media blog Buzzmachine whose b&w header photo of rolling mill-type machinery from the industrial age fits this story to a T.
Jarvis cites Media Culpa a Swedish blog, as his source; who in turn link to the WAN – World Association of Newspapers website showing a list of the oldest newspapers still in print.
An Internet Hit list?

]]> http://quoi9.net/english/2007/01/06/signs-of-life-after-print/feed/ 0 French digg-like goes all polyglot http://quoi9.net/english/2006/12/13/french-digg-like-translation/ http://quoi9.net/english/2006/12/13/french-digg-like-translation/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:19:54 +0000 coulson http://quoi9.net/english/2006/12/13/french-digg-like-speaks-many-tongues/ mywikio.gif Wikio continues its international development this Monday by launching an English version – Wikio.com, und German – Wikio.de and Spanish – Wikio.es, también.

Pierre Chappaz, who founded the popular (600,000 users in Fr, 100,000 in Italy) user-contributed news company, admits that while Wikio intends to stay a European focused news site, with a UK version coming next indexing the British media, Wikio.com is a direct stab at the massive U.S. market. Good luck to them.

via lexpansion

]]> http://quoi9.net/english/2006/12/13/french-digg-like-translation/feed/ 0 France 24/24 en ligne http://quoi9.net/english/2006/12/09/france-24-translation/ http://quoi9.net/english/2006/12/09/france-24-translation/#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:16:32 +0000 coulson http://quoi9.net/english/2006/12/09/france-24-translation/ The France24 website was launched Wednesday night followed by the TV station – available on cable and satellite (list of satellite and cable service providers) as of Thursday.

The News website is in French, English and Arabic and will dedicate 20% of its programming to culture & lifestyle, the TV station has Arabic previewed for 2007 and Spanish in 2009.

So Chirac’s vision of international news seen from a French perspective is finally under way and the public funded company (€86m) dwarfed by its major competitors CNN and BBC in terms of budget – €1.2bn for CNN, is aiming at viewing figures in the region of 75 million households in more than 90 countries.

update: over 500,000 people from 108 countries connected to the France24 website during its Wednesday evening launch, according to AFP. via Le Expansion

france24-small.jpg

more info Guardian Atelier.fr

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