It sounds like those of us interested in meeting over coffee at the Black Sheep Deli at Open Square, in Holyoke, can do so on a weekday, which is great to hear.
Chime in here to let me know if any of these dates work for you:
Friday, June 2
Monday, June 5
Wednesday, June 7
I imagine meeting at about 10:30 am and see if we can hang around until noon or so, maybe grab a sandwich on the way out.
6 comments May 24th, 2006
I’m out at the Beyond Broadcast this a.m.–briefly met Dan Gillmor and Steve Garfield (videoblogger out of boston, check out his stuff)….check out the site for the conf. and check out what’s being said about the changes in public and participatory media and how the internet is changing all that. there’s also going to be some stuff on net neutrality.
They’re webcasting live now–the site should lead you to everything.
1 comment May 12th, 2006
Seems like it’s been a bit since we had a chance to get together–lots of folks have been busy (Kelsey got a “Best of” from the V.A., S.H. has a cover story in the V.A. and Heather’s had her hands full…)
In the comments on the April meetup, Bronwen suggested we might meet at Moshi-Moshi in Northampton. We could also meet at Packards. There are some rooms in the back that are quiet, private and free to use (probably have to order something, but technically there’s no charge for the room)…
There’s been some interesting commentary going around re citizen media (most notably at the We Media Global Forum ) and there’s the conference UMass at the end of June. Lise and Chris of iBrattleboro.com are chairing the Citizens Media Bootcamp track of the conference, but there’s going to be a lot of other discussions going on during the three days of the conference, so it’s worth attending.
If some of you are interested, perhaps the best would be to leave a comment and let’s see what we can get going…:-)
13 comments May 5th, 2006
If you’re a broadband/dsl user, it’s easy to take for granted that, for a nominal fee, we have unlimited access to all sorts of wonderful content.
The net as we know it is not owned nor controlled by any particular group–that’s Net Neutrality.
Today, Congress meets to discuss Net Neutrality and it may all be gone by tomorrow–if Big Telcos such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast have their way.
Save the Internet.com is a grassroots, non-partisan coalition aimed at educating the public about Net Neutrality and is lobbying Congress to not listen to the special interests of Big Telcos and to keep the Net free of their control. Take a moment to check out what they have to say on the matter…
Also, CNet offers their analysis on the Net Neutrality issue.
Add comment April 25th, 2006
Hello, Citizen Media people. Onward with the cause. (Tish, any further word on integrating with the Media Giraffers?) I report with disapointment that I will miss this weekend’s Bowling for Bloggers event (strike two, to mix metaphors), but I report with enthusiasm that I am giving a poetry reading on April 25 in Easthampton. The details are on my blog.
8 comments April 13th, 2006
Mark Glaser’s Mediashift post yesterday offers some very intriguing analysis of the questions that arise when a critical mass of citizens want to be journalists.
Add comment April 7th, 2006
I know this isn’t blog/c.j. oriented, but I thought some folks might be interested in this organization: Books Building Bridges:
Books Building Bridges is a community-building project developed in order to acknowledge and foster a common human desire for learning, authentic connection and a healthy society while transcending political divisions in the United States and the geographic and social distance between the United States and Iraq
they have some family-friendly events coming up, too. Check out the website.
Add comment April 3rd, 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.
Add comment March 30th, 2006
I blogged today about the recent “unconference” on news orgs in Philly over the weekend.
1 comment March 27th, 2006
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