O-N-N (Open News Network)
_Marc Lee
about Marc Lee
http://www.nun.ch/
Marc Lee creates network-oriented interactive projects since 1999.
Experimenting with information and communication technologies, his projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative "issue-clusters" that are essential for communication processes in digital networks.
Marc Lee has recently exhibited in major new media exhibitions including: ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum NY “Open_Source_Art_Hacking”, Jiff Mind Korea, Transmediale 02 & 04, Ars Electronica, Edith Ruߨ-Haus, Kontrollfelder, Viper01 & 03 & 04 & 05, Read_Me Festival 1.2, ICC Tokyo
about O-N-N
http://www.nun.ch/index.php/Main/O-N-N
The Open News Network (O-N-N) endeavors to bring together the creative and communicative potential of Internet users in order to better represent the opinions of each individual in the media landscape.
Going beyond the established frontiers of news distribution and media technologies, members of O-N-N communicate using peer to peer networks to try to get individual opinions established in the real world.
Are journalists still necessary in the age of the Internet? With O-N-N the reader becomes the author.
Background:
Through their presence in the public, influential media conglomerates
determine which topics are newsworthy. At the same time, due to economic
reasons, they have to focus on their largest audience groups. This leads
to a focus on the lucrative 'average consumer'. This economically driven
process reinforces the over-simplification of the news media. Many people
cannot identify with this 'average' arrangement and feel like they are
not represented in the media landscape. At the same time, everyday life
and private life are becoming more and more a part of public interest:
On the internet, the press and television present themselves to the average
person and become 'stars'. There appears to be a desire to share ones
experiences and opinions with the general public. The usual media technologies
which have the journalist as a gatekeeper, who decides what is or is not
published does not conform to this new trend. This is where O-N-N steps
in.
The Open News Network (O-N-N):
You can download and install the O-N-N client software from the http://www.o-n-n.org
webpage and become an O-N-N member. As a member you have your own news
site and user profile, which can be easily configured to your own requirements.
You can also choose your own Internet address, e.g. http://art.dugy.net
or YourName.sceptic.net. As long as your PC is online your news site will
be available at this Internet address. You can compose your own news or
notices. These will be published on your own news site and then transmitted
to all of the servers of the other O-N-N members where they will be fully
and automatically redacted depending on the personal profile of each member.
All sites extend these texts automatically with extra material (text,
pictures and links), which are obtained from the Internet via search engine
and is based on text analysis and classification. Diverse extended dossiers
will be archived locally and also made available to the Internet. Thus
the dossiers will be thematically similar but will differ optically. Automated
and targeted media notices will be sent to journalists with references
to the various dossiers. The frequent appearance of the same topics on
different servers will get the attention of journalists and can push the
topic into the real world of traditional media. When a dossier is accessed
by people or search engines, extra links to similar news articles from
O-N-N will be integrated into the document. The more members that belong
to O-N-N the more frequently the information will multiply and also the
more importance it will gain. Interconnection- and archiving strategies
within O-N-N should push the articles into the top spots for Internet
searches.