Updated 22nd December 2010 with list of plugins used on the site. Groundviews launched its new version today. It was a radical departure from the look and feel of the old and first version to the new avatar. Old / original version Current version Counting articles and comments, Groundviews has, at last count, well over [...]
Archive | December, 2010
Groundviews and ICT4Peace profiled in Fast Company
Fast Company profiles Groundviews and my work on ICT4Peace in an article by Jenara Nerenberg published today on their website. Hattotuwa now serves as Special Adviser to the Geneva-based ICT4Peace Foundation affiliated with the United Nations to leverage his real-world experience in new media and citizen journalism to help with crisis response, early warning and [...]
Launch of Groundviews 2.0: Compelling citizen journalism from Sri Lanka
Regular readers of Groundviews would have noticed the site upgrade that went live last week. The new website sports a complete overhaul of underlying site technologies and presentation. Content is now presented in an easier to read font and format. More white space enhances readability and the rolling features tabs on the homepage allow readers [...]
Satire, Rap and Wikileaks?
YouTube enables new forms of expression, and the Rap News is a cogent example. I’ve watched a few episodes in the past and you don’t have to like the genre of music to appreciate the talent, and indeed, acute political awareness that informs these productions. This recent one on Wikileaks is a case in point [...]
One man television production and new media
What really is television these days and how do we consume it? Is it what’s up on YouTube projected to the TV through YouTube Leanback? Google TV? Mobile TV? Terrestrial broadcasts? IPTV? BBC iPlayer? CNN’s visually stunning iPad app, just launched? Ustream on the iPhone? What does it mean today to ‘broadcast’ a programme? Those [...]
Sex, rain and cricket over Wikileaks
Though searches on Google for Wikileaks over the past 30 days show a dramatic increase from Sri Lanka, it’s heartening to know that so many of us have our priorities right. Sri Lankans overwhelmingly search for sex, cricket and sometimes even the weather over the pulsating debates on Wikileaks. Searches on weather are to be [...]
New media sets the bar for journalism in Sri Lanka post-war
Freedom in Solidarity: Media Working for Peace in South Asia, published on behalf of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific recognises compelling content on Groundviews published post-war, in the face of, as it notes, the ‘indifference of mainstream media’ over vital issues such as human security, [...]
