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[bc] BloggerCon 04/17/2004 06:04 PM
I'm at the second BloggerCon, Dave Winer's do at Harvard. Dave begins by sketching the shape of the conference. Then he leads us in a sing-along of Take Me Out to the Ballgame and the US national anthem. Really. Now it's on to Jay Rosen's session on blogging and journalism. He's running it like a 100-person seminar, which is the format of sessions here. Why is blogging moving towards journalism, Jay begins by asking. There is, of course, a spread of opinion. Are blogs moving towards journalism? Are they more like op-eds? Are they muckrakers? Could blogs move towards...

BloggerCon 3.0

BloggerCon 3.0 08/16/2004 10:29 AM
Dave and friends are planning a BloggerCon conference this fall in Palo Alto. Count me in. Hope I can help.

How to do a BloggerCon

How to do a BloggerCon 04/19/2004 06:58 AM

In the last Fat Man Sings session (in which the fat man didn't sing) it was suggested that I write a howto that explains how to do a BloggerCon. At that moment, as I was about to complete the job, the thought of doing more work for BC seemed pretty horrible. But the idea stuck and I think it's a worthwhile thing to do, but not something to do all in one shot, rather to do it over time and hope that someone investigating this will use a search engine to find all the bits.

Bloggercon ahoy

Bloggercon ahoy 09/22/2004 02:23 PM
I spoke at the first Bloggercon last year and enjoyed it. Missed the second one last spring. Dave Winer asked me to moderate a discussion at the next one, on Nov. 6 at Stanford, and I was game. The topic is the next phase of the continuing dialogue on blogging and journalism. The previous discussions led by Ed Cone and Jay Rosen set high standards I'll aim to match.

I've been a pro journalist for 20 years but I've always been on one fringe or another -- first, as a writer for an alternative weekly; then, as a theater critic on the "wrong" coast, writing for the underdog afternoon paper here in San Francisco; then, as a migrant from the print world to the Web, here at Salon; most recently, as a pro editor turned blogger. Since I started my publishing career in my teens cranking out mimeographed Diplomacy and Dungeons & Dragons magazines in my basement, the new world of self-publishing makes me feel right at home.

I'll do my best to steer us out of the shallow familiar waters (is blogging journalism? Of course! Much of the time, anyway) and toward what I feel are the more challenging questions about journalists' and bloggers' symbiotic relationship. I've tried to lay some of them out here. Feel free to join the discussion over on the Bloggercon site, or at the event, or right here.

BloggerCon Bloggers

BloggerCon Bloggers 04/17/2004 08:46 AM

Jeff Jarvis is making copious notes about the blogging/journalism session. He types faster than I can.

BloggerCon Links

BloggerCon Links 04/18/2004 09:50 AM

Tara has an enormous list of links to folks who wrote about one or more of the BloggerCon sessions. One way she got it was using Feedster, an RSS search engine that I find quite useful.

"just about every single BloggerCon
post"

"just about every single BloggerCon
post" 04/19/2004 03:01 AM

Liloia.com: Blogging BloggerCon

Liloia.com: Blogging BloggerCon 04/19/2004 12:12 AM
just about every single BloggerCon post .. links to Bloggercon blogging .. links

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BloggerCon session announcements

BloggerCon session announcements 09/22/2004 08:31 AM

Session description: Bloggers and Journalists -- Border Crossings.

The next BloggerCon is November 6 at Stanford Law School. Late last week I started working with the discussion leaders, one-to-one, talking about how BloggerCon sessions work, and to get started on the session descriptions.

I like to present the sessions one at a time, on the BloggerCon site, and here on Scripting News. Starting today we'll be introducing sessions on a fairly regular basis until the grid is filled in, which will probably be the day before the conference, if memory serves me. ";->"

Scott Rosenberg, managing editor of Salon, will lead a discussion on journalism and blogging. He's an ideal person to lead this discussion because he's a skilled reporter, and both a journalist and a blogger. All three BC's have had sessions about journalism. The first discussion was led by Ed Cone, the second by Jay Rosen, and now we turn to Scott Rosenberg.

BloggerCon: Presidential Bloggers

BloggerCon: Presidential Bloggers 04/09/2004 04:00 PM

Four years ago, almost no one would have connected the words "presidential" and "weblog" -- the very notion would have seemed bizarre. No longer. At next week's BloggerCon, I propose to look at presidential weblogs from four perspectives:

Official campaign blogs. Should candidates do their own postings (do they have time)? Are campaign blogs serving internal needs, or informing the electorate, or both? What makes a campaign blog work, or not?

Affiliated blogs. A new generation of political activists is pushing voters and money toward the campaigns. How closely tied can (or should) campaigns be to their supporters? Is central control a given, or will the authority ultimately devolve to the edges as it supposedly did in the Dean campaign, at least for a while? What are the opportunities and risks? (Even linking seems to be in play these days. Jay Rosen analyses the Daily Kos furor here.)

Commentator blogs. Political reporters are derelict if they don't read, among others, Glenn Reynolds and Josh Marshall. What effect is the new-media commentariat having on the political process?

Missing links. Do we need more bloggers who avoid commentary and focus on facts? Maybe we need more issue-oriented blogs, going way beyond the something-for-everyone position papers that candidates post on websites. How about a health-care blog where someone tracks everything the candidates say about this issue? In general, how can the blogosphere improve the political process? We're expecting several campaign bloggers (official and otherwise) to join us in Cambridge next Saturday. Remember, the session is not about what I think. It's about what we can come up with together. You can help by posting some comments here or on the BloggerCon site, and by suggesting new questions.

Presidential Blogs at BloggerCon

Presidential Blogs at BloggerCon 04/17/2004 08:46 AM

I'm leading the discussion later this morning at the BloggerCon gathering on presidential blogging. Two observations:

John Kerry campaign blog postings are signed by Dick Bell, official blogger. The George Bush campaign blog postings are signed in a corporate way, by the campaign.

On the other hand, Bush's blog seems to point outside more often -- a more Web-like thing to do.

Ideas for Saturday's BloggerCon?

Ideas for Saturday's BloggerCon? 04/15/2004 02:24 PM

Due to the unavailability of a more qualified/desirable moderator I have been drafted to lead a session at Saturday's BloggerCon.  Supposedly there will be nearly 100 people in a single room at Harvard Law School from 1:30-2:45 pm and we're supposed to talk about the concentration of readership among a tiny handful of blogs.

An article by Clay Shirky is the original source for the session.

This assignment frightens me for a number of reasons.  First the original proposition does not seem sufficiently surprising.  We are all familiar with the fact that NBC has more viewers than the local public access channel.  Second I'm not sure what issue is amenable to a free-form unanchored discussion among 100 people but this one doesn't seem like it.  That's one of my stock refrains in the online community world, actually, is that the publisher needs to frame the discussion with articles or the whole site loses focus because nobody can figure out what the purpose is.

Anyone have an idea for breaking the participants up into groups of 10, having them do something for 10 minutes, and then report the results to the whole crowd?  I think many people there will have laptops and Harvard Law School has wireless access (MIT does too but visitors have to donate a kidney to the I/S department before they are authorized to use it).

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International bl0gging

E:M | Brainstorming at Bloggercon -
International bl0gging 04/18/2004 04:23 AM
Editor: Myself (English) .. # 17 Apr 04 @ 02:06 PM .. Hoder's comments

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The BloggerCon 2003 Webl0g: Home Page

The BloggerCon 2003 Webl0g: Home Page 04/17/2004 08:53 AM
News in Blogging:This weekend's Blogger Con .. Harvard Blog Conference .. The BloggerCon 2003 .. BloggerCon2003 .. BloggerCon

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BloggerCon: Discussion Notes for, "What
is Journalism? And What Can Webl0gs Do
About It?"

BloggerCon: Discussion Notes for, "What
is Journalism? And What Can Webl0gs Do
About It?" 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
The background essay, "No One Owns Journalism," and an initial list of questions for the BloggerCon session I will be leading April 17 at Harvard Law School. Expect this post to change as comments come in and I re-think it. Plus, I need ten more questions for my final list of twenty. Got an idea?

Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism
and Webl0gging in Their Corrected
Fullness

Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism
and Webl0gging in Their Corrected
Fullness 04/16/2004 10:22 AM
Here's my Introduction, take two, for the Saturday morning session at BloggerCon. Let's start by separating two things. Blogging is not journalism. But if each imagined itself as the other, some good might come of that.

PressThink: Brain Food for BloggerCon:
Journalism and Webl0gging in Their
Corrected Fullness

PressThink: Brain Food for BloggerCon:
Journalism and Webl0gging in Their
Corrected Fullness 04/16/2004 10:22 PM
Brain Food for BloggerCon: Journalism and Weblogging in Their Corrected Fullness .. takes on a question .. Rosen

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