London startup Blottr lands New York Times deal

blottr_new_york_timesLondon-based crowdsourced news agency Blottr has landed another big publishing fish. The New York Times News Service and Syndicate will join its distribution network and will offer its clients a specially curated feed of Blottr’s verified crowdsourced news videos from events around the world.

The curated feed delivers four to five daily weekday videos from breaking news events around the globe. Each video includes a brief textual summary of the video for context and documentation tracing the verification process for that video. Continue reading

The UK picks up bronze behind Sweden in new Web Index

Even the (very) late arrival of moderator Stephen Fry didn’t detract from the launch of Tim Berner-Lee’s new Web Index on London’s South Bank.

Blaming a ‘nightclub accident’ for causing him to oversleep, Fry told a bad joke about the film Warhorse and added a little gloss to what had already been an impressive line-up discussing Berner-Lee’s new initiative. Continue reading