The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its State of The News Media 2007, in which the predictably grim outlook is enumerated in all the detail 160,000-words allow. It captures the many truths that divide news organizations from their readers. And oh, how that divide seems to grow.

Trendwatching.com has another well-researched, informative overview of crowd-related phenomena. This time the consumer think-tank focuses on ways in ways in which customers are forming online collectives of various types in order to exercise powerful leverage over companies.  Noting that over 1 billion people are now online, Trendwatching predicts that we've passed the tipping point at which good ideas spread on their own merits. Crowd Clout, as TW calls it, captures the concept but leaves us wondering the larger question, Will this ultimately empower the people, or just lower the price of diapers?

"Nothing Is Lost," a solo show at Newspace Center for Photography by photographer Mariana Tres.
Tres sent out 33 disposable cameras to diverse people from around the world, which they used for 24 hours. Is the result a Family of Man-style commonality? Judge for yourself...

The Harvard Business School's Andrew McAfee reprises Benjamin Franklin's questions: "What's the use of a newborn baby?" Will the technologies of freeform emergent collaboration give us an answer? Check out McAfee's summary of Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

With a Hollywood-like budget of 45 million euros (almost 60 million dollars.) The new institutional web site, Italy's Tourism Portal  launched among an ocean of negative reactions. This initiative is worth looking at because the response, RItaliaCamp/Chi, showcases the ability of individuals working online to collectively push for change. Details from Masternewsmedia.org.

"From YouTube to YouNiversity:" A typically lucid essay from MIT's Henry Jenkins about networked culture, adhocracies, media studies and CMS. From Chronicle of Higher Education. "We are living through a shift in the communications environment on a scale that has only occurred a few times in human history, comparable to the shift from an oral tradition to literacy, the emergence of print and the rise of modern mass media," writes Jenkins.

Vantan.org up-dates on Crowdsourcing the Media' panel at the Nexus 2007 event.

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