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Platforms or agents like The Daily Reel can provide values if they are able to aggregate and monetize the amount of viewers such "semi-professional" videos are able to attract.

The prime time for "out-of-the-mainstream" video/movie sites is coming. With the help of broadband technologies, the pent-up demand on "the long tail" for alternative video products are matched with the supply from avid independent movie and documentary makers--not all of them love to hang out on YouTube.

By hosting the online presidential debate, Yahoo is pushing into "user-generated politics" , and hopefully this will boost the internet portal's sluggish business. Internet looks like a perfect stage for American politics: the decentralist nature of internet shares the same ideal of democracy, the basis of American politics.

Think all lazy couch potatoes suddenly become ardent amateur TV producers, photographers and citizen journalists in the age of web 2.0? Not really.

Maybe our world is going to be Googlezone in 2014. Google is expanding quickly into advertising across all media.

Just as Jimmy Wales believes the best search engine should not just rely on computer algorithm but incorporate human intelligence and knowledge, a california-based new movie website (to be launched in July) will combine data crunching with first hand human knowlege--coming from clerks working for the DVD rental stores.

A dead tree won't come alive even when the summer is coming.

It’s amazing to think that we pay more attention when we read on the computer screen than we read the paper. At least that is what most people do for news.

As home made videos and semi-professionally made sitcoms like Burgs boom online, we need a place where hundreds of thousands of videos seep through everyday and the good ones stay so that every video we click will have some minimum quality standard ensured.

Once again, someone's trying to play politics online.

The CW has initiated plans to take online video to their bigger screens.

The creators of Ninja show believe that agencies like UTA will not evaporate even when two small guys with a laptop can reach a big audience on their own.

Generating incremental ad dollars for media, that's the pitch Google has for media companies. It has been working well with many newspapers after the trial run starting late last year.

Unsurprisingly, we now hear music executives lamenting that compact disc sales in the U.S. dropped 20 percent in the first three months of the year as internet downloading continues to grow.

Given the sudden crowdsourcing mania in the media world here in the U.S., who would have thought that the venerable Economist in the U.K. would be the publication pushing the envelope? Strangely, the stodgy magazine favored by fathers the world over is going the farthest to explore how far crowdsourced media can go.