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Today I interviewed Stéphane de Messières from Citizens Market. He told me about their focus on the content creation process, their nine-strong team of volunteers and his thoughts on collaboration.

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Annesley has interviewed Rob Harrison from Ethical Consumer (although no podcast this time, sorry).

Ethical Consumer have the most comprehensive high quality researched company information database in the world. They have been going for 20 years using a subscription model, magazine and extensive B2B work and are extremely well known and connected in the UK. They cover 50,000 companies, take articles from over 50 publications and use around 10 researchers / investigators.

Rob Harrison, a founding member of Ethical Consumer, has now stated that they are “genuinely considering moving into a Web 2.0 model with free content (for not-for-profits and non-commercial use), community contributions (continuing with the researchers as well) and commercialising around the data”. And furthermore that they are “extremely interested in joining with an international Web 2.0 collaboration on ECIS”.

My fourth interview is with another academic who is conducting research highly relevant to ethical consumer information, Nate Greenslit from the MIT Media Lab. I asked Nate to talk about his current research project, Accountability, which provides consumers with ethical information about the companies they buy from and investigates whether this knowledge influences their future spending behaviour.

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