From an article in USA Today regarding the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the Media report: “The 600-page report also finds that the traditional “journalism of verification” — in which reporters check facts — is ceding ground to a new “journalism of assertion,” in which information is offered on radio and cable talk shows and via Internet bloggers,…
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Citizen Journalism in Action
Dan Gillmor points to an early adopter of citizen journalism; the Buffton Today site and newspaper in South Carolina. I don’t know how big Buffton is, but I live in a town that has just over 11,000 people and we still have a local paper, The Chesterton Tribune, that hits my mailbox every afternoon, Monday through Friday. It is the…
From Dan Gillmor: Pitching Newspaper Editors on Citizen Journalism
Dan Gillmor is pitching top editors at U.S. newspapers today on the importance of citizen journalism. From his post: “I’m going to say what I always say: that this is too important for their future to ignore, and that it’s going to happen with or without them — and that newspapers, almost uniquely, have the ability to be the leaders…
Attention and authority
Looks like it is the day for tracking the Gillmor boys…. Steve Gillmor writes: “What does matter is a pool of attention metadata owned by the users. This open cloud of reputational presence and authority can be mined by each group of constituents. Users can barter their attention in return for access to full content, membership priviliges, and incentives for…
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David Churbuck on “The State of Paid Research”
If you are interested in learning more about where I work, check out the latest post by David Churbuck, “The State of Paid Research”. David writes: “I won’t boil the ocean of information economics and attempt a trenchant analysis of paid vs. free content, but a confluence of factors points to a disruption in the historical model of tucking value…
Godzilla attacks!
Godzilla Originally uploaded by mfioritto. This is what happens when your nieces take off with your cell phone cam.