Posts from ‘June, 2006’

Jon Udell at Infoworld hates the expression “user-generated content,” with excellent reason. In “User-generated content vs. reader-created context,” he writes: Now that the original vision of a two-way web is finally made real, we can distinguish between amateur storytellers (in the best and highest sense of amateur) and professional storytellers. Thanks to the contributions of […]

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Washington Post: A Push Toward Private Control of Newspapers. The recent breakup of the Knight Ridder Inc. newspaper chain has helped spark interest around the country in returning papers to local or private ownership after decades of expansion by corporate media conglomerates. This is, on balance, a  good thing. Too few publicly owned newspaper companies […]

Over at his blog, Jay Rosen writes about — in preparation for a session he’s leading next Friday at BloggerCon — “Users-Know-More-than-We-Do Journalism,” saying: It’s a “put up or shut up” moment for open source methods in public interest reporting. Can we take good ideas like… distributed knowledge, social networks, collaborative editing, the wisdom of […]

Heading back home from Helsinki and the great Aula event. Ross Mayfield and Bruno Giussani did some solid blogging.

It is genuine and excellent news to see that Om Malik, as he writes in “Its Time To Transition,” is going independent. His blog is required reading in Silicon Valley, and he’s one of the best journalists I’ve encountered, period. He’s amused to have been scooped by the ValleyWag blog. This reminds me of when […]

AOL’s blogging boss, Jason Calacanis, has convinced the company to use the Netscape.com brand — still enormously valuable — as a Digg-like site where people vote on which news stories are the most important, interesting, etc. I’d expected something like this from Yahoo, not AOL. Jason seems to have made the difference, and I hope […]

unwiki: The Deletion Log is a list of all the pages that have abused Wiki’s democratic remit; it is the last stop on the way to destruction. Caution: not entirely work-friendly…

Nokia is working on WidSets, the ability to use web services on mobile phones. This is extremely impressive stuff.

Jane Genova: Playing In Traffic – Social Media Ain’t for Unreconstructed Old Print Folks. Look forward to plenty of road kill. The speed associated with social media requires specialized skills. Those skills only come from hands-on experience. The speed mainly requires an appropriate level of skepticism, and an ability to not pull a trigger before […]