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The Sunlight Foundation asks, “Is Congress A Family Business, Round Two: Once again we’re looking at the House of Representatives, this time investigating what I like to call the Sierra Dominion phenomenon—that of congressional spouses who work for a firm that in turn works for the member’s campaign. Sierra Dominion Financial Resources is the name […]

Many thanks to Dan Kennedy for his long and kind article in the current Commonwealth Magazine, in which he accurately captures my main goal: “to help the nascent citizen-journalism movement raise its standards and boost its influence, while also helping mainstream media organizations use technology to reach out to what he likes to call the […]

Somewhat related to the posting below, the Video the Vote project says it wants to: protect the vote by being the eyes and ears where ballots are cast and counted on Election Day. We will document and report any irregularities that occur at polling places and boards of elections while they are happening, enabling the […]

Our students at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism and the School of Information have done an amazing job pulling together the beta version of VoteGuide: your interactive community participation portal to the (California) 11th Congressional district race. This non-partisan site looks at the issues and information about the candidates with help […]

At the Providence Journal, where a systems glitch made for big problems, Sheila Lennon volunteered: to stay home and take emails from reporters and editors. I would publish The Providence Journal’s breaking news on the Web by myself all day from our home den, barefoot. I would email headlines, permalinks and timestamps back to the […]

Tom Evslin’s graceful retraction of something he wrote recently helps us understand the changing media scene. Let’s unpack what happened. In a posting entitled “Networked Citizen Journalists at Work” (including himself), he discussed the way folks peered into a small telecom company’s apparent business model. What prompted them? An item in David Pogue’s New York […]

UPDATED Tom Evslin discusses the operations of some “Networked Citizen Journalists at Work” (including himself) as they peered into a small telecom company’s apparent business model. What prompted them? An item in David Pogue’s New York Times tech blog, which left some obvious unanswered questions. Tom writes: What’s interesting is that the business model left […]

Milverton Wallace, in an essay entitled “The new Corinthians: How the Web is socialising journalism,” says: So now we’ve come full circle: from 17th /18th century amateurism, to 19th/20th century professionalism and back to amateurism in the 21st century. Here we use “amateur” in the noble, Corinthian sense – someone or an activity motivated by […]

Frank Shaw: What Replaces Media? So in this world of citizen journalists, who covers the city council meetings? Who applies the resources to uncover what is really happening in Iraq and how the US government is (or is not) doing the right things? Today, it’s the New York Times and their ilk. Tomorrow, who will […]