Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

Dave Winer and I participated in a moderated discussion at the excellent Future in Review conference last month. Here’s the podcast (MP3 file).

My colleagues at StopBadware.org, a Berkman Center project, report: Thousands of visitors to StopBadware.org have shared their badware experiences with us since we launched. From their stories, we’ve identified and tested four applications that contain annoying or objectionable behaviors. The idea here is that people — perhaps we can call them citizen journalists for this […]

We’re in Massachusetts with some fellow fellows of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

The Wall Street Journal has been leading the way in uncovering yet another corporate scandal: stock-option cheating in which corporate CEOs have apparently been rigging the dates of options grants to give themselves what amounts to free money. Imagine that you could enter a lottery the day after the winning numbers were announced, and you […]

Nicholas Carr announces “The death of Wikipedia” in a tendentious posting that doesn’t begin to prove his point. He does point out, fairly, that some of the Wikipedia rhetoric has not matched reality (such as the flat statement that anyone can edit anything; there are some speed bumps and a few trolls are banned outright). […]

Chris Lydon: An Emersonian transformation under way. The Sage of Concord said: Forsake the authorities and follow the gleam of light flashing across your own mind from within! And now: Blog it! It is a great Emersonian transformation and liberation that’s under way in the public conversation. Or so it seems to one recovering child […]

Just a heads-up that we’re in the process of creating a Citizen Media Award program. I’ve been working on this for a while, and have several potential sponsors. These awards will be quite different from the just-announced cool program over at the Press Gazette in the United Kingdom, where they’ve teamed up with mobile phone […]

How apt. A Financial Times editorial appeared on the last day of the WeMedia conference (“Excuse me while I borrow liberally“) commenting on how the mainstream media should learn from bloggers to show attribution for ideas and provide transparency. While observing the recent cases of high-profile plagiarism, Tim Harford considers something bloggers have done well: […]

At the We Media conference in London after two amazing days in Berlin (more below), there are more people wearing ties in this room than at a similar event in New York last year. There are plenty of people blogging this gathering, so I won’t. In Berlin I worked with 15 journalists from the developing […]

Take a look at Congresspedia, a new initiative to put our lawmakers under an appropriate microscope — a wiki where we can all add what we know to what is likely to become an essential resource. The site, created by the recently launched Sunlight Foundation, will have editors keeping an eye on the activity (and […]