Archive for March, 2006
The U.S. State Department has an issue of eJournalUSA (March 2006) called “Media Emerging.” Read it online or download the PDF version. From the “about” page:
Established media institutions—newspapers and broadcasters—struggle to adapt to a new climate, just as media consumers seize their own territory in the information landscape to create a form of participatory journalism.
Experts and pioneers in these changing technologies share their thoughts on the following pages, describing the innovations unfolding and offering a vision of what may lie ahead.
The issue includes an interview with Lex Alexander called, “Readers Make a Newspaper Their Own.” A sample:
Q: What do citizens, with their involvement, bring to your newspaper, your Web product, that reporters and editors weren’t providing in the old journalism?
Alexander: A lot of people know more than we do about a lot of things. The blogs keep readers informed about what we’re working on and give readers a basis for thinking, “Here is another angle that you guys haven’t thought of, or, what you’re looking at isn’t really the main issue; the main issue is over here.” I think it enables readers to have more confidence in the quality of our reporting.
March 30th, 2006
I blogged today about the recent “unconference” on news orgs in Philly over the weekend.
March 27th, 2006
Celebrate tax day by bowling with bloggers. Saturday April 15, 7:00 pm, again at Northampton Bowling.
Before April 15 comes around, I am hoping to set another planning meeting date with those who are interested in participating (I’m thinking 3-5 people). So if you are, email me. If you’re not, that’s cool, since not everybody’s into planning.
March 17th, 2006
From Center for Citizen Media blog:
I’m giving a talk and joining a discussion this evening at Worcester State College in Massachusetts. If you’re in the area, come on by…
March 15th, 2006
I talked to Bill Densmore of the Media Giraffe Project at UMass briefly this morning. Of interest to us here at citizen media is that he said that they would be happy to provide us a track at the conference they are holding in June. I didn’t talk to him about the details, but I’m sure we could follow up with him if we were interested.
Also, I’m sorry to have missed the Bowling for Bloggers event. How did it go?
March 13th, 2006
Has anyone seen this?
New Jersey Assemblyman Peter Biondi has proposed a numbskulled, unconstitutional, offensive, and downright stupid bill that would force operators of internet services — presumably, forums, chats, blog hosts, web hosts, perhaps even email services and ISPs and bloggers themselves — to require and obtain legal names and addresses for anyone who posts online… or else the services can be sued for anything false or defamatory posters say.
Found it on Buzzmachine.
March 9th, 2006
Came across the Media Giraffe Projectwebsite this a.m. Media Giraffe is hosting a conference on the weekend of June 29-July 1, 2006 at U.Mass. There is a fee–don’t know if there’s a way to volunteer, but perhaps contacting them about volunteering might lead to a good result.
March 7th, 2006