Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

The Personal Bee is looking quite interesting in its early incarnation. The site says it’s helping information producers and consumers capture the essential buzz from the roar of information washing over us all everyday. We believe that smart analysis of the information torrent coursing through blogs and mainstream news sites, coupled with the abilities of […]

The Save the Internet coalition is trying to prevent a hijacking of our future. The robber barons of the Information Age — the phone and cable giants — are trying to wrest control of this absolutely essential infrastructure away from the edges of the networks, and put that control back in the center where they […]

At Wednesday evening’s Harvard gathering, the third in a series of “Engaging With the News” conversations, my Berkman Center colleague Colin Rhinesmith took amazingly detailed notes. Thanks, Colin!

Via Rocketboom, pioneer Dave Winer talks about lots of stuff including journalism instruction for non-journalists.

I’m currently at the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference in Manila, Philippines, with other prominent folks from the blogsphere, like Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Jeff Ooi and Isaac Mao. You can check out the conference blog for a rundown of presentations on “Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia in Manila to share experiences […]

Weblogs Inc. has launched Blogging Ohio, which looks to be the first of many such sites. Meanwhile, my old citizen-media project, Bayosphere, is now part of Backfence. (See disclosures page.)

The University of Maryland’s J-Lab has announced its latest grantees for some very cool projects that include: “environmental news in the Great Lakes, communities in rural Alaska and inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia,” among others. We should watch them all with interest.

Wikipedia has become so popular and influential, that it was the subject of a formal evaluation by Nature magazine in 2005 (and a related dispute by Britannica afterwards). This month, BBC Focus magazine has done a similar comparision with Encarta, Britannica, Infoplease and Wikipedia. While the study is not currently online, Wikipedian Arwel Parry posted […]

Here’s my latest BBC News column about the changes in media: “Why we are all reporters now.”

Samuel Freedman: On The Difference Between The Amateur And The Pro. Instead of providing the ultimate marketplace of ideas, however, cable TV and the Internet have become the ultimate amen corner, where nobody ever need encounter an opinion, much less a fact, that runs counter to what he or she already believes. To treat an […]