Trending: Yes, there’s a crisis of trust in journalism. But it’s inside newsrooms, too.
That isn’t why Dicker is interested in it, however. Much like Civil, a blockchain-based media platform that wants to use the technology for journalism, Dicker sees Po.et as a way of using blockchain to empower individual content creators—not just journalists or news organizations, but anyone who creates words or images or music or video for almost any purpose, including advertisers and brands. In effect, he says Po.et is trying to build an open-source, blockchain-based licensing system for content.
To try to understand a bit more about what this means, and why Dicker decided to throw in the towel on a promising career at a traditional media entity, I spoke with him recently by phone. What follows is a transcript of some of that discussion, edited for length and clarity.
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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Curation
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Content+curation
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=press
Trending: Yes, there’s a crisis of trust in journalism. But it’s inside newsrooms, too.
That isn’t why Dicker is interested in it, however. Much like Civil, a blockchain-based media platform that wants to use the technology for journalism, Dicker sees Po.et as a way of using blockchain to empower individual content creators—not just journalists or news organizations, but anyone who creates words or images or music or video for almost any purpose, including advertisers and brands. In effect, he says Po.et is trying to build an open-source, blockchain-based licensing system for content.
To try to understand a bit more about what this means, and why Dicker decided to throw in the towel on a promising career at a traditional media entity, I spoke with him recently by phone. What follows is a transcript of some of that discussion, edited for length and clarity.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Curation
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Content+curation
https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=press