A really, really annoying online advertising technique…
Posts from ‘July, 2006’
Accountability is a Reader's Choice, Too
ABC News discusses citizen media, but worries too much about reliability.
Dabbling in Media
Mary Hodder and her colleagues have launched the beta of Dabble, which they says is “about people describing, discovering and organizing video, wherever it’s found or hosted.”
Global Voices Among Winners of Journalism Award
My colleagues at Global Voices Online are among the winners of the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Here’s the press release. Congrats to all…
NewAssignment: A New Way Toward Collaborative Journalism
As he explains on his Pressthink blog today, Jay Rosen has taken his biggest step yet into the world he’s been writing about for some time now. With the help of several grants he’s starting NewAssignment.net, based on this notion: “Reporter + smart mob + editor with a fund and backers get the story the […]
New Englanders: Sign Up Available for Citizen Journalism UnConference Aug. 7
Please use this signup page for next month’s citizen journalism un-conference, to be held August 7 in Cambridge, Mass., at Harvard Law School. It follows directly on Wikimania, which ends the day before. Please check it out. Note: We have to keep the numbers fairly low for logistical reasons, so please let us know sooner […]
Why One Pro Journalist Gave it Up
The pay was lousy, the bosses showed no loyalty to the workers, etc., etc. Read about it here.
Most Bloggers Aren't Journalists: So What?
Slate’s Jack Shafer expresses apparent suprise that the Pew survey I mentioned this week shows a distinct minority of bloggers who consider themselves journalists. Since when was it otherwise?
One Citizen's Media Project
Harvey Fite’s medium was stone. He worked here with chisels and hammers and pullies and ropes and muscle, and a brain that made sense of a once-abandoned bluestone quarry. He created Opus 40, one of the great works of art of the 20th Century. As a child growing up nearby in upstate New York, I […]
Bloggers See Selves in Many Roles
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has a new report (260k PDF) on blogging. The organization says, “Blogging is bringing new voices to the online world” — and survey data include these highlights: 54% of bloggers say that they have never published their writing or media creations anywhere else; 44% say they have published […]