2005 is the year of 'digitized citizens'

The past year was the time when people really started to follow the "self-service" trend: self-discovery and information. Mobile devices not only play a role for conversation and texting, they are also for taking photos, sharing and publishing content around the world.

Over the past 12 months, digital device users have challenged sources of content distribution such as traditional news, music and movies. The information potential of entertainment tools has been thrilled through the tsunami tsunami in late 2004. The event is reflected in a "personalized" style with images, videos taken, shot, and edited. US Hurricane Katrina also proved that "digital citizens" play a more important role in providing real images than journalists.

Recently, the BBC has received about 6,500 photos and videos from mobile devices sent by e-mail related to the fire of Buncefield petroleum storage, thousands of times more than the images they received from London event was attacked July 7.

Changing the mode of communication has created opportunities for people to participate in local and global dialogues. Podcasts exploded into a typical type of information in 2005 when Apple integrated it into the iTunes music store and will definitely appear if someone draws a media history diagram. Blogs and video blogs also contribute to helping Internet users express positive and negative attitudes about the community and life issues .

This also makes determining who is the author of what, who has the right to share content and reproduce a product becomes more difficult in a converged world.

This year, the convergence process also takes place around traditional types like TV (mobile TV). Audiovisual vehicles are gradually turning to "on-demand communications" and events that will take place in the next 12 months will likely make an exciting 2006 technology year.