Posts from ‘September, 2006’

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has posted a roundtable discussion, Charting the Online Revolution. I’m a participant.

Wired News: Digg Fights Top Users For Control. Some of the generals in Digg.com’s army of volunteer news readers are in revolt over new abuse controls that could undermine their influence on the site.

In an item on Poynter Online about the likely dismissal of a libel lawsuit against a website where a commenter posted allegedly libelous material, a staffer from the San Diego Union Tribune is quoted thusly: While protection to ferret out the truth is nice, I kind of wish the courts or Congress would revisit this […]

It’s no surprise that some bloggers on the political right have been enthusiastic supporters of the fake history that ABC and Disney are passing off as “almost fact” this weekend — the so-called “docudrama” about 9/11. What is dismaying in the extreme is that some people for whom I’ve had a great deal of respect […]

There’s a fascinating experiment taking place this weekend. It’s called “dropping knowledge” — a meeting and project that challenges the notion that only the media and so-called ‘experts’ can speak out on matters of global relevance. dropping knowledge invites you to participate actively in a global dialogue and make your voice heard. dropping knowledge means […]

Wired News’ Ryan Singel asked his readers to rework a story on wikis. In “The Wiki That Edited Me,” he offers this debriefing summary: Certainly the final story is more accurate and more representative of how wikis are used. Is it a better story than the one that would have emerged after a Wired News […]

Many thanks to the Sunlight Foundation, which has awarded us one of its “Transparency Grants” for a test in California. It’s to develop an Election Year Demonstration Project for citizen journalism in one Congressional district. CCM will oversee the creation of a website that will seek to cover everything that can possibly be reported on […]

WikiPatents – Community Patent Review says it contributes to the US patent system by commenting on issued patents and, soon, pending patent applications. OK, but what does the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office say? They’ll decide whether the overworked examiners — this is the charitable explanation for the garbage patents being issued all the time […]

Google’s latest foray into gathering information sounds promising. Its News Archive Search is described as an: easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people, ideas and see how they have been described over time. In addition to searching for the most relevant articles for their query, users can get […]

The Project for Excellence in Journalism is making is voluminous data available to anyone who wants to use it in new ways: Perhaps the biggest change is the new Numbers section, which contains virtually all the data PEJ has produced since it began in 1997. Here users can search our data archive by industry, by […]