KQED, the public TV station in San Franscisco, posted its QUEST documentary Earth Day Special: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Headed, on the Web ahead of the scheduled broadcast next week. Good move. A sign of things to come?
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A Report and a ‘Cookbook’ on Local Citizen Media Sites
Two new reports about citizen media have been released recently, both with a focus on local sites. Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News? The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism was released by J-Lab. The report by Jan Schaffer consolidates and analyzes responses from 191 people involved with or familiar with online citizen […]
New Boston Free Daily puts Bloggers on the Page
BostonNOW, a new free weekly set to launch April 17th, expects to fill out its content with excerpts from local bloggers. A small staff will cover local events, and some wire service stories will be included But the use of the fresh voices of citizens on both its web site and print editions is designed […]
In Blogosphere, Honor Should Rule
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 […]
Citizen-Soldier Journalists
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 […]
New Journalism Projects Funded
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 […]
Neal Shine, R.I.P.
My professional life has been particularly blessed by a small group of people who pushed me to be better. They challenged me to try new things, to adapt and endure. Neal Shine, who died yesterday, was one of them. Today’s Detroit Free Press, the paper to which he devoted his working years, calls him “A […]
Happy Anniversary to a Blog Pioneer
Dave Winer was one of the first bloggers, and an unquestioned pioneer in developing blog tools and other key technologies we in the “read-write Web” world take for granted today. His blog, Scripting News, is 10 years old today — and he’s put up what looks like the page that graced the site a decade […]
Don't Be April Fooled
Slate’s Jack Shafer offers an April Fool’s Day defense kit, saying, “This year, don’t be taken for a sucker by the media.” I tend not to indulge in these things, but couldn’t resist back in 2000, just as the tech stock bubble was peaking. My friend Michael Schrage and I used my San Jose Mercury […]
Does Anti-Plagiarism Service Violate Copyright Law
Washington Post: McLean Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service. The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, seeks $900,000 in damages from the for-profit service known as Turnitin. The service seeks to root out cheaters by comparing student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers as well […]