Posts from ‘July, 2007’

Mike Orren reports, in “Domesticated but not fixed“: We’ve just sold Pegasus News to Fisher Communications (NASDAQ: FSCI), a publicly-traded TV and radio broadcasting company based in Seattle. While sales of companies are sometimes viewed as endings, this should be looked upon as a beginning — hopefully the beginning of a lot of cool things […]

Scott Rosenberg, in “There is no “first blogger,” dismantles the Wall Street Journal’s well-intentioned but surprisingly clueless weekend round-up about the so-called 10th anniversary of blogging. At issue, for many folks, are the Journal’s assertions about who did things first in the weblog world. By general agreement the newspaper got it wrong. In We the […]

Jeff Howe (Wired News): Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned Mark Potts: Backfence: Lessons Learned

In my keynote at last month’s OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum in Seoul, I was asked to offer a year-on-year progress report on the state of citizen journalism. To sum up: We’ve come a long way. There’s a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters. Investments, from media organizations and others, are fueling […]

NY Times: Conrad Black’s Downfall Shaped by Many Battles. Another striking aspect of Mr. Black’s downfall is the degree to which his own bullheadedness has worked against him. Mr. Black, a military history buff who would compare his business strategies to great battles, made several aggressive moves after being removed from his company that resulted […]

I’m heading to Austin today for the New Agendas in Journalism and Citizenship symposium at the University of Texas School of Journalism. My topic for a talk tomorrow night: “Media Literacy in a Media-Saturated Age.”

In country after country, people are trying fascinating experiments in citizen media. One of the pleasures of visiting other places is learning about some of them. At a conference where I spoke today in El Escorial, a town northwest of Madrid, I learned about Bottup, a citizen journalism site that, from the sound of it, […]

I’m doing an online chat today at ELPAIS.com, the website of the big Spanish daily newspaper. Readers will be sending questions and I’ll be answering them (via a translator). The chat takes place at 11 a.m. local time.

Backfence.com, a pioneering hyperlocal media company, is shutting down. Terry Heaton, pulling together Web commentary on what he calls some important lessons, says: The announced closing of Backfence has brought about some refreshing and much-needed discussion on the subject of hyperlocal news and the web. This is an important discussion, because a lot of companies […]

David Weinberger: Delaminate the Bastards!. We should do to the carriers of Internet signals what we did to the carriers of telephone signals. Bust ’em up so that the companies that connect us to the Internet don’t also sell us services over the Internet. Providing connection and providing content and services can and should be […]