Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

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 […]

Ethan Zuckerman writes: So, who are citizen reporters? That’s the question I’ve been asking based on the folks I’ve met at the conference thus far and the questions I got from the audience after my talk. The after lunch panel gives an overview, featuring six citizen journalists who work with OhmyNews, representing a wide range […]

CNET: Apple abandons effort to unmask leaker. The case, filed in the superior court of Santa Clara County, drew national attention not only because it involved unreleased products–but also because it was one of the first to set the rules of how the rights of uncredentialed online journalists should be balanced against the rights of […]

This week’s OhmyNews International Forum has opened, with some interesting commentary and suggestions from early speakers. Ethan Zuckerman, who’s here (and on a panel I’m moderating in a few minutes) is taking his usual great notes — and (update) even better, has agreed to cross-post them here. I’ll post links to other folks’ blogs as […]

I’m at the OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters’ Forum for the next two days, speaking later this morning, and enjoying the chance to meet citizen reporters from around the world. Our hosts – Oh Yeon Ho and his team – have invited great speakers to join us and ensured that the audience is at least as […]

Jeff Jarvis Jeff Jarvis isn’t happy with the expression “citizen journalism,” and prefers “networked journalism.” I have some quibbles.

Jay Rosen: The People Formerly Known as the Audience. The people formerly known as the audience are simply the public made realer, less fictional, more able, less predictable. You should welcome that, media people. But whether you do or not we want you to know we’re here. What traditional media folks need to do is […]

The Metro, a weekly paper in San Jose, asked me a bunch of questions, I answered them here.

Arrived for the second day, or part of it (I’m shuttling back to Supernova as well), of BloggerCon, and the session is all about tools. As promised, the audience is the expert panel, not a panel. Phil Torrone of Make magazine is a great MC. I’ve now learned about several podcasting tools I didn’t know […]

AOL’s blogging boss, Jason Calacanis, has convinced the company to use the Netscape.com brand — still enormously valuable — as a Digg-like site where people vote on which news stories are the most important, interesting, etc. I’d expected something like this from Yahoo, not AOL. Jason seems to have made the difference, and I hope […]