Our students at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism and the School of Information have done an amazing job pulling together the beta version of VoteGuide: your interactive community participation portal to the (California) 11th Congressional district race. This non-partisan site looks at the issues and information about the candidates with help […]
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AP's bloggy ASAP initiative
ASAP Originally uploaded by lisa.williams. Derrick Lang, author of The Slug, part of ASAP, an AP initiative to experiment and multimedia and appeal to younger readers: “This banner up here, I made that in Photoshop; these graphics on the side, I taught myself how to do that in TypePad; I had to teach myself how […]
What Google Didn't Buy
Susan Mernit wonders: Why did Google buy YouTube when they could have bought the New York Times Company? That news got me thinking about what Google mighta coulda bought with their money and didn’t, and I got to asking myself where the paradigm shift was in that. For instance, with that kind of dough, Google […]
PlaceBlogger Discussion
Placeblogger Originally uploaded by lisa.williams. Thursday, Oct. 12, 7PM Berkman Center for the Internet and Society 23 Everett Street Cambridge, MA Attendees will get the first, prelaunch, look under the hood at a live, under development version of Placeblogger, the site I’m putting together that will be a directory and live aggregator of headlines from […]
"Restoring service"
Richard Anderson of Village Soup sees the creation of mostly-online, and online-first papers, and then driving those stories to print, lowers the cost of running a paper, making it possible to “restore service to communities of 20,000 to 40,000 that they once had.” That is, the service of news for small towns that have become […]
Journalism is becoming a high-tech profession — complete with software licensing
Here at the J-Lab Citizens’ Media Summit, a panel featuring Travis Henry of YourHub, Mary Lou Fulton of the Bakersfield Californian and Bakotopia, and Steve Yelvington of Morris Digital, which launched Bluffton Today. One thing they have in common: they all developed their own software to run their sites — and now they’re selling that […]
Announcing Placeblogger.com
Today at the J-Lab Citizens’ Media Summit, I gave a sneak preview of Placeblogger.com, which will contain a browsable directory of placeblogs across the US. What’s a placeblog? A placeblog is a site dedicated to a particular geographical community — a county, town, city, or neighborhood. Thus far, I’ve identified nearly 700 placeblogs in the […]
Slashdot readers interview Jay Rosen
Participants in the online tech community site Slashdot are interviewing Pressthink blogger and NYU professor Jay Rosen on the future of citizen journalism. No doubt Jay’s new project — NewAssignment.Net — will be a factor in the conversation. Slashdot’s been around long enough that it qualifies for greybeard status on the basis of its longevity; […]
Center for Citizen Media Podcast: Conversation with Courtney Hollands of WickedLocal.com
This podcast features an interview with Courtney Hollands of WickedLocal.com. WickedLocal is a citizen journalism initiative that is a companion to the Old Colony Memorial newspaper of Plymouth, Massachusetts (Yes, the one with the famous rock). Hollands discusses how Wicked Local mixes pro content from the Old Colony Memorial and other papers in the region […]
What do you do when you see machine guns in Harvard Square? Call a blogger.
Bloggers get up close and personal with the arrival of the former prime minister of Iran in Harvard Square, Cambridge: The Secret Service agents were on high alert. Numerous agents emerged from the cars and surrounded the front of the hotel, with guns drawn, sweeping back and forth over the crowd that quickly came to […]