I was at a roundtable debate this morning about Citizen Journalism (update: rather ungenerous of me not to mention this was hosted by the excellent people from iStockPhoto). Everyone saying they want to embrace CJ as part of their forward strategy. I suggest that mainstream media is attempting to contain rather than embrace conversations.
Me (to [...]
Tag Archives: citizen-journalism
Things I Wish I’d Said #1084
October 23, 2007 – 8:39 pm
10 Free eBooks About Web 2.0
October 31, 2006 – 11:14 am
I expect you’re fed up of waiting for my book to appear. I know I am. In the meantime, stay up to speed and save money with ten free e-books about Web 2.0 and Social Media. In no particular order…
1) Social Media or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love communication†by Australian PRs [...]
Man Bites Mainstream Media
September 21, 2006 – 2:13 pm
In breaking news err… yesterday, NewAssignment.net has received a $100,000 grant from Reuters to hire an editor. NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen explains the project’s agenda:
The idea is to draw “smart crowdsâ€â€”groups of people configured to share intelligence—into collaboration at NewAssignment.Net and get stories done that way that aren’t getting done now. By pooling their [...]
The Truth About Truthiness
September 19, 2006 – 1:45 am
The new reality? I was in a brief email exchange yesterday with the managing editor of NowPublic, Mark Schneider. NowPublic publishes blog posts in a new-sy manner, similarly to Newsvine and Tailrank. It’s citizen journalism in a very naked manner. He reminded me about the idea of ‘truthiness’.
Comedian Stephen Colbert coined the phrase in [...]
Wikipedia Forked-up?
September 17, 2006 – 3:22 am
Larry Sanger, the first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, and allegedly the originator of the plan to make it a wiki, has announced that he plans to fork the project. The new branch will have no anonymous changes and expert editors. The project will be called the ‘Citizendium’. (Hang on, I know there are some PRs among [...]
Yesterday’s News Works Harder
September 11, 2006 – 3:27 pm
Chris Anderson is interviewed in this week’s Press Gazette. Lots of interesting ideas, and not all about the Long Tail. I picked out the following remarks as key:
On the internet, stories increase in value over time, rather than disappearing, the way they do in printed newspapers and magazines:
In a weird way, [the internet] completely inverts [...]
Digg to Repair Holes
September 7, 2006 – 10:36 am
News voting site digg is to re-adjust its story promotion algorithm to give less weight to votes from friends. Founder Kevin Rose writes on the digg blog:
This algorithm update will look at the unique digging diversity of the individuals digging the story. Users that follow a gaming pattern will have less promotion weight. This doesn’t [...]
Now We Are 2.0
September 5, 2006 – 11:20 am
You know we’re in trouble when people start comparing the Web 2.0 trend to postmodernism. In my general experience, it’s a sure sign that the conversation is about to disappear up its own backside. However, praise is due to Dr Paddy Byers who very cleverly teased out some of the links in a piece he [...]
PG Tips
September 3, 2006 – 7:13 pm
Techcrunch has posted a great interview with angel investor Paul Graham, which covers some different ground to the one he did with me. Especially interesting, I thought, is Graham’s point that new software startups can effect social and political change:
Frankly, even though I’m supposed to be an investor, the ideas that excite me most are [...]
Paper People
August 25, 2006 – 11:40 am
Douglas Fisher, who has helped set up the online community newspaper Hartsville Today over the last year, has published a 75-page guide (PDF File) to citizen journalism and running a community paper online.
It’s well worth a read. Perhaps of especial interest is what he says about training for these new journalists:
Other sites have done more [...]
