November 28, 2005
Teen Content Creators
"Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations." ( Read more )
Standing out in a commodity crowd
"I don't visit any mainstream media sites directly (and in print, I only read the Sunday New York Times and a load of magazines). If there's something relevant to my interests in the Wall Street Journal, the daily NYT or some other news site, I assume one of the blogs I read will point me to it.
This is not to say that I don't value mainstream media; I do. It's just that I'd rather choose my own editor to select the articles of highest importance to me (including those the mainstream media choose not to cover at all, or just not well). In this case that "editor" is a network of bloggers, not whomever decides what makes it to the front page of the newspaper." ( Read more )
November 24, 2005
OhmyNews a 'Marriage of Democracy and Technology'
"OMN founder Oh Yeon Ho gives a keynote speech at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society." ( Read more )
OhmyNews and 21st Century Journalism
In his autobiography, Oh Yeon Ho, the founder and chief executive of the Korean newspaper OhmyNews, describes how an Internet craze gripped South Korea in 1999, when he was launching OhmyNews. ( Read More )
November 23, 2005
BLOGGING, JOURNALISM & CREDIBILITY
Conference organized by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, the American Library Association’s Office of Information Technology and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. ( Read more )
The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism
"A resource guide to help you figure out how to put this industry trend to work". ( Read more )
Speech by Rupert Murdoch to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
"Our internet site will have to do still more to be competitive. For some, it may have to become the place for conversation. The digital native doesn’t send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online, and starts a blog. We need to be the destination for those bloggers. We need to encourage readers to think of the web as the place to go to engage our reporters and editors in more extended discussions about the way a particular story was reported or researched or presented." ( Read more )
Text of opening keynote by Tom Curley
The news, as "lecture," is giving way to the news as a "conversation." ( Read more )
November 21, 2005
November 20, 2005
We the media
A Weblog About Topics and Issues Discussed in the Book We the Media by Dan Gillmor.
Steve Outing's The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism
"Citizen journalism." It's one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business these days. Many news executives are probably thinking about implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative; a small but growing number have already done so." ( Read more )