In the first episode of the Center for Citizen Media’s podcast, Lisa Williams of hyperlocal news site H2otown.info talks with Brittney Gilbert, the blogger behind Nashvilleistalking.com. Nashvilleistalking.com is produced by Nashville’s ABC affiliate, WKRN/News 2 and has become the nodal point for Nashville’s local blogosphere: That’s the whole point of Nashvillistalking — the title of […]
Posts from ‘July, 2006’
Man on the street reporting: homeless blogger takes reins at blog sponsored by TV station
Lisa Williams: News2/WKRN, Nashville’s ABC affiliate, has a great ongoing experiment called Nashvilleistalking.com, where WKRN blogger Brittney Gilbert rounds up the best of the local blogosphere and beyond each weekday. Each weekend, the station pays $100 to a local blogger to keep the site ticking over Saturday and Sunday. The site’s most recent weekend host […]
Indian Government in the Censorship Business, Too?
BoingBoing has collected a number of links that strongly suggest India’s government, in the wake of last week’s bombings, is on a broad Internet censorship campaign. It’s bad enough to watch China do this kind of thing, but India is supposed to be a democracy. The terrorists must be delighted to see such an over-the-top […]
Collaborative News Survey: Hype versus Reality
Why are collaborative news, commenting and blogging sites such as Newsvine, Slashdot and Global Voices attracting users and visitors? Who are these folks? What do they want from their interactions? According to a just-released survey — “The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of News” — by […]
OhmyNews Forum: A Few Reflections
I’m at the Incheon airport, heading home, after a conference that has, by turn, inspired and amazed me. The OhmyNews Citizen Journalism Forum, which concluded last evening with a dinner in Seoul, brought together people from around the world to share experiences and ideas about their work. It’s been a remarkable several days. Although I […]
Ohmynews Forum: Narrowing Digital Divide
Ethan Zuckerman writes: Gary Chapman, professor at UT Austin and director of the 21st Century Project, closes the conference with a speech on “Citizen Journalism and the Digital Divide”, a topic near and dear to my heart. He starts by explaining that “digital divide” is a term that’s falling out of favor, and that people […]
Japan versus South Korea: Can you export OhmyNews?
Ethan Zuckerman writes: Inkyu Kong, a citizen reporter for three years with OhmyNews, has some fascinating perspectives on the success of OhmyNews in Korea as opposed to in other parts of Asia. His presentation offers some background thoughts on social forces in Korea, and case studies of OhmyNews versus JanJan, a Japanese citizen media site, […]
OhmyNews Forum: More faces of OhmyNews
Ethan Zuckerman writes: A second panel of citizen journalists – all reporters for OhmyNews – help diversify the picture of the people who report for the service. Several of the panelists have strong political views which have led them to their work as citizen journalists. Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian academic and journalist, who is […]
Variety in the World of Citizen Journalism
It’s truly amazing to be hearing the stories of citizen journalists from around the world here at the OhmyNews Forum. These folks have done an amazing job at getting a cross-section of the folks who are really doing this. (Huge frustration for me: I was hoping to interview a lot of these folks, but I […]
OhmyNews Forum: Scoop and Flix – the offspring of OhmyNews?
Ethan Zuckerman writes: Michael Weiss was the only Israeli attendee at the OhmyNews forum last year – now he’s one of three. He tells us that, at this rate, the official language of the forum will be Hebrew in a few years. Weiss certaintly took good notes at the forum last year, and has used […]