Posts from ‘April, 2007’

Tim O’Reilly, instrumental in the recent brouhaha over blogging codes of conduct, offers some valuable “Lessons Learned So Far,” which include: * The poor choice of the “badges” I proposed, together with a reiteration of why I thought badges might be useful. * The need for a more modular code of conduct, a set of […]

In the wake of bad online behavior and proposals to add more organized weight to online community policing, Jon Garfunkel offers “Comment Management Responsibility (CommResp)” — and it takes time to read and understand. Give it a look.

BostonNOW, a new free weekly set to launch April 17th, expects to fill out its content with excerpts from local bloggers. A small staff will cover local events, and some wire service stories will be included But the use of the fresh voices of citizens on both its web site and print editions is designed […]

UPDATED The New York Times, in “A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs,” asks: Is it too late to bring civility to the Web? The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place. Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger […]

Chris Eder, a combat correspondent with the U.S. Air Force, has been pondering citizen media and its application to the military. In “Broadcast This: Leveraging Citizen Journalism in the Air Force,” he dives deep into the topic. (Note: I spent some time with him on the phone and in an email exchange as he was […]

The University of Maryland’s J-Lab has announced: Ten new ideas for amplifying community news will receive $12,000 New Voices grants to launch news sites for under-covered communities, embed TV reporters in neighborhoods, network regional radio programs, and map the local impact of climate change. Here are the funded projects. Congrats to all. * Vermont Climate […]

Slate’s Jack Shafer writes “In defense of the Anna Nicole Smith feeding frenzy“: Perhaps the Smith coverage doesn’t advance democracy in quite the same way gavel-to-gavel C-SPAN telecasts do. But the demand for natural disaster, tragedy, crime, murder coverage, and other “sensational” news has always ranked at the top of reader and viewer preferences. Giving […]

UPDATED Google Maps personal version is going to be a huge change in the mapping market. It lets people annotate their own maps in rich ways, using the Web the way it was possible to use the application Google Earth before. It’s not new in concept. A startup called Platial has been doing this already, […]

My professional life has been particularly blessed by a small group of people who pushed me to be better. They challenged me to try new things, to adapt and endure. Neal Shine, who died yesterday, was one of them. Today’s Detroit Free Press, the paper to which he devoted his working years, calls him “A […]

Crosscut Seattle “seeks to reinvigorate local journalism in the Pacific Northwest.”