Posts under ‘Citizen Journalism — General’

Over at Just Another Pretty Farce, Nashville blogger Katherine Coble reports settlement of what was shaping up to be a nasty legal disupte. You can find more about the situation in earlier postings on her blog, but the main point is that the threatening party agreed — after the intervention of a lawyer for the […]

(Note: This will appear tomorrow as an op-ed piece in the Washington Examiner newspaper.) Once again, horror has given us a glimpse of our media future: simultaneously conversational and distributed, mass and personal. The killings Monday at Virginia Tech brought to the forefront the remarkable evolution in media over the past few years. And as […]

National Post (Toronto): Midnight blogger exposes a scandal. For a July, 2006, post that questioned the photo identification method that Mr. Nifong used, for example, Prof. Johnson says he contacted every district attorney in North Carolina, as well as 10 police departments. He questioned them about lineup policies and procedures, and concluded the process used […]

Doug Kaye has started PodCorps, “an all-volunteer team of audio/video producers who record and publish important spoken-word events anywhere in the world.”

On my way to Helsinki for the Mediapäivä international Media Fair, where I’m giving two talks and appearing on a panel. More (much) later… Caution: If you click through to that site, be aware that it’ll start an audio-video presentation that makes noise. Turn down your speakers if that will disturb anyone nearby.

Tim O’Reilly, instrumental in the recent brouhaha over blogging codes of conduct, offers some valuable “Lessons Learned So Far,” which include: * The poor choice of the “badges” I proposed, together with a reiteration of why I thought badges might be useful. * The need for a more modular code of conduct, a set of […]

In the wake of bad online behavior and proposals to add more organized weight to online community policing, Jon Garfunkel offers “Comment Management Responsibility (CommResp)” — and it takes time to read and understand. Give it a look.

UPDATED The New York Times, in “A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs,” asks: Is it too late to bring civility to the Web? The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place. Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger […]

Chris Eder, a combat correspondent with the U.S. Air Force, has been pondering citizen media and its application to the military. In “Broadcast This: Leveraging Citizen Journalism in the Air Force,” he dives deep into the topic. (Note: I spent some time with him on the phone and in an email exchange as he was […]

The University of Maryland’s J-Lab has announced: Ten new ideas for amplifying community news will receive $12,000 New Voices grants to launch news sites for under-covered communities, embed TV reporters in neighborhoods, network regional radio programs, and map the local impact of climate change. Here are the funded projects. Congrats to all. * Vermont Climate […]