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'Bloggers' are rewriting journalism
'Bloggers' are rewriting journalism
12/30/2003 03:51 AMUSA Today Dec 30 2003 2:34AM ET
Freewheeling 'bl0ggers' are rewriting
rules of journalism
Freewheeling 'bl0ggers' are rewriting
rules of journalism
12/30/2003 02:57 PMfairly comprehensive article about political blogging .. lengthy and
interesting roundup .. trs bon article de USA
Today
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12/31/2003 03:51 AM"Freewheeling 'bl0ggers' are rewriting
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12/30/2003 02:53 PM"Freewheeling 'bl0ggers' are rewriting
rules of journalism Objectivity? Not
here -- and the masses ea"
"Freewheeling 'bl0ggers' are rewriting
rules of journalism Objectivity? Not
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12/31/2003 03:51 AMUSA Today: Freewheeling
'bl0ggers' are rewriting rules
of journalism
USA Today: Freewheeling
'bl0ggers' are rewriting rules
of journalism
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Here come the uninformed, lazy,
opinionated masses...
Here come the uninformed, lazy,
opinionated masses...
03/19/2003 10:25 PMThe Fortune Magazine MySQL story I mentioned the other day (which is
also being syndicated on cnn.com) has just been slashdotted. Slashdot
is a lot like a car accident on the highway. You know it's gonna be
really bad, but somehow you can't stop yourself from looking (or
reading in this case). News flash, folks: MySQL has transactions. Yes,
the ACID kind, just like Oracle and PostgreSQL. They've been there for
a while now. Really. I've been using them quite...
A Tempest in a Latte: Starbucks Too
Opinionated for Some Wingers 3/26
A Tempest in a Latte: Starbucks Too
Opinionated for Some Wingers 3/26
03/27/2005 04:56 AMConservatives protest "liberal" Starbucks coffee cup sayings .. St.
Petersburg
Times
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"Rewriting History"
"Rewriting History"
06/11/2004 03:17 AMRewriting history
Rewriting history
07/23/2004 09:35 AMEver eager to prove it's fair and balanced, the Fox News Channel brags
that it broke the Bush DUI story in 2000. Warning: You've entered the
spin zone.
The Art of Rewriting Old Games
The Art of Rewriting Old Games
10/29/2003 12:10 AMTake some of the 8-bit games you enjoyed as a kid and update them for
the next generation.
SitePoint: Rewriting Your Page, On the
Fly
SitePoint: Rewriting Your Page, On the
Fly
02/14/2003 04:37 PMNYC rewriting all its city codes
NYC rewriting all its city codes
05/17/2004 12:09 AMi wonder if code and law are similar enough that this is the mozilla
of zoning laws
mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL
Rewriting
mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL
Rewriting
10/23/2002 06:03 AMWebmasterBase Oct 23 2002 4:58AM ET
Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the
Internet
Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the
Internet
02/12/2004 07:36 PMSender Rewriting Scheme Library 0.1
alpha
Sender Rewriting Scheme Library 0.1
alpha
02/15/2004 05:13 PMANSI C Implementation of the Sender Rewriting Scheme
F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on
Delivery of the Internet
F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on
Delivery of the Internet
02/12/2004 06:19 PMThe new rules are expected to profoundly alter both the way the
Internet is delivered and used in homes and businesses.
Slashdot | Rewriting Rules on Delivery
of the Internet
Slashdot | Rewriting Rules on Delivery
of the Internet
02/13/2004 09:17 AMhttp://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/239201.shtml?tid=103
mathin writes "A recent NYTimes (free reg required) article states
that, 'The Federal Communications Commission began writing new rules
today that officials and industry experts said would profoundly alter
both the way the Internet is delivered and used in homes and
businesses.' Things under consideration: broad band over electrical
wires and VoIP. A little thin on details, but interesting none the
less."
Surprise! Energy Lobbyists Caught
Rewriting EPA Rules... Again!
Surprise! Energy Lobbyists Caught
Rewriting EPA Rules... Again!
09/24/2004 01:46 AMEPA is taking its marching orders .. writing EPA's regulations ..
third
time
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White House rewriting core security
policy document
White House rewriting core security
policy document
11/10/2003 11:09 PMThe new document focuses on terrorist threats to the nation's vital
economic infrastructures as a way to weaken the U.S. economy and
damage public confidence.
ESP Journalism
ESP Journalism
07/28/2004 09:54 PMAt 8:50 this evening, CJAD, 800 on your AM dial, reported that John
Edwards accepted the party nomination and recounted what he said in
his speech. Only problem: It's now 9:50 and Edwards has yet to give
his speech. Apparently, Canadian Press jumped the gun with the
transcript - explicitly embargoed - circulated by the Democratic PR
folks, and CJAD ran with it. Not surprisingly, it made the top listing
at Google News....
Participatory journalism
Participatory journalism
08/16/2004 11:52 AMParticipatory (or citizen) journalism is getting a lot of
coverage at the moment, thanks in part to Dan Gillmor's new book We the Media. For a great
example of participatory journalism in action, check out Wikipedia's
outstanding coverage of the 2004
Summer Olympics. It's already a serious competitor to the official
site in terms of content, and its wiki nature means it will only
get better as the games continue. Hat tip: Gadgetopia.
I've been a fan of Wikipedia's current affairs
coverage for quite a while. The site is especially useful in
catching up with ongoing stories, in particular for detailed profiles
of people and groups currently making the news (random example: Muqtada
al-Sadr). Despite the site's open nature (or maybe because of it),
they generally do an excellent job of keeping to a ne
utral point of view.
Citizen journalism is unlikely to ever replace traditional
journalism completely, but it can certainly enhance it. Then again,
with OhMyNews now one of the
most influential media outlets in Korea (see this interview for details) this is
one trend that's not going to go away.
New Journalism Panel
New Journalism Panel
02/10/2004 02:51 AMI something going on that is changing the journalist role? How do we
do this better? Dan: On my right, is Jeff Jarvis, but I won't go into
that any further. Jay Rosen Teach-ins should teach us things, the
most...
funding journalism
funding journalism
10/29/2003 12:31 PM Blogger
Joshua Micah
Marshall solicits funding so he can cover the Howard Dean campaign
in New Hampshire.
Readers respond with nearly $5,000 in 24 hours. See? You
CAN buy that kind of coverage.
Innovations in Journalism
Innovations in Journalism
02/16/2004 01:22 PMMaking the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch
Blogdex as this link rises, I'm actually going...
Bloggers vs. Journalism
Bloggers vs. Journalism
02/01/2005 09:48 PMMieto Marinadi talks about how a column by
Matt
i Wuori in Iltalehti is asking if blogs could be journalism and
whether they will overrun the traditional media. I think the fact
that the question is being asked now shows clearly how much Finland is
not a front-runner in the information society game. In fact,
this question is not even asked yet by journalists, but a lawyer.
You see, PressThink says the conversation on this subject is already over.
But in order to overrun media, there has to be first a Finnish blog
that has something to say in a way that is interesting and new. I
much enjoy the writings of Sedis, for example, and I am
expecting much from Haltia (and some other political
bloggers), now that the Helsinki City Council is starting its work.
The new Finland for Thought (in
English) keeps also asking important questions, and Kari
Haakana is probably the foremost journalistic blogger in Finland.
At the moment, Sami
Köykkä of Pinseri and Alex Nieminen of sukellus.fi are
arguably the most influential bloggers in Finland.
But this is not enough. I don't know whether it's even a good
start. Most of the "internet discussion" in Finland is done
in the scary, yet boring discussion boards of magazines, such as
Iltalehti, Iltasanomat, Vauva-lehti, etc, and it is pretty much
failing to impact anything. There is little danger to any sort of
professional journalism from these discussion boards, who mostly just
consist of rehashing the same arguments all over again. The USENET has been
in existence for twenty years, and every time I go there, I see the
same discussions but with different people. Or sometimes with the
same people. It makes you wonder whether these discussion boards ever
contributed something to anything, other than in the sense of community creation.
To me, blogs are different from the discussion boards because they
are individualistic. A news group is usually referred to by its name,
say "the people in sfnet.keskustelu.ihmissuhteet say
that...". Similarly in a bulletin board: "Hey, I found this
from Vauva-lehti..." On the discussion board, you lose yourself
and become a part of a bigger crowd, all shouting at the same time.
But a blog is attached to a real person (except for some weir
dos who can't seem to be able to decide whether they exist or
not). Therefore, whatever a blog says carries more gravity than a
random rambling on a news board. It is essentially your own
personal publication, and the comments are only a side story -
much like "from the readers" -sections on newspapers.
Therefore, bloggers are not a community, any more than newspapers are.
Some bloggers form communities, yes, but blogs are far too good a
ground for egocentrism for communities to
become prevalent.
The reason that I find blogs interesting is that they might
be the avenue to a real way for individuals (particularly
non-journalists and non-politicians) to influence local and national
decision-making; the real "information society" that
the
...
Hurricane Journalism
Hurricane Journalism
09/10/2004 12:43 PM
"Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight!"
Herald writer's comprehensive guide to Hurricane Journalism. Very
important reading for storm-chasing reporters, especially now, as
Ivan the Terrible sets its eye on Jamaica, Cuba, and Florida.
Found via
CapitalWeather.
Also check out
CaribPundit for Ivan updates and reminiscences
of island hurricanes.
(Ivan the Terrible? Eye? Get it?
Eh? Eh? Yeah, I didn't think it was funny on Fox News
either.) Off the Grid Journalism
Off the Grid Journalism
03/06/2004 01:52 AMWhen a writer dissents from it, or departs from it, the master
narrative is a very real thing. Here are two examples: one from
politics, one from music.
Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism
Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism
08/14/2004 08:22 AMJay has blogged an atypical piece that is typically brilliant. He
asks: Did 9/11 change journalism? Should it have? What story do
journalists tell themselves about their role in the "war on
terrorism"? Are journalists who inform citizens of the most powerful
and influentual nation in the world participants in the war on terror,
in the worldwide struggle for democracy, freedom and markets, because
their country is a participant—the biggest by far—and they
inform it? Don't miss the discussion in the comments. I only have a
simple-minded answer to the question Jay poses in his nuanced post:
9/11 should have...
Martyrs for the cause of journalism
Martyrs for the cause of journalism
07/26/2004 07:21 AMThey outraged an advertiser, pissed off the publisher or fell afoul of
right- or left-wing political correctness. Now these articles killed
by major magazines and newspapers have found new life.
Lazy Journalism
Lazy Journalism
12/17/2003 08:29 AMRichard
Forno has done a good job of extolling the virtues of security in
Mac OS X. This comes after PC Magazine columnist Lance Ulanoff
reported a vulnerability in Mac OS X and went on to write
a long and inflammatory
tirade about how Mac OS X is no more secure than the Windows OS,
and anyone who disagreed was a Mac zealot.
Printing stuff like this is guaranteed to cause a stir in the Mac
community, and as sure as eggs are eggs, the Slashdot crowd responded
in
true
acerbic fashion. What really bugs me is the lazy journalists who
print this stuff.
Time after time you get a 'technology' journalist who finds material a
bit thin on the ground (or are too lazy to write anything newsworthy)
and have a go at Apple and/or the Apple community by writing an overly
aggressive or inflammatory article. Why? The primary concern, I guess,
being to draw in huge traffic from the offended Apple community
websites and somehow earn respect of the Windows crowd by bashing one
of their rivals.
Jack Schofield from
Guardian Online is a
prime example. I've no doubt he's a respected 'technology' journalist
for a number of years, but his anti-Apple posts on
onlineblog (a weblog run by the
Guardian Online team) only serve to expose his laziness and spoil an
otherwise good read.
Reverse Journalism
Reverse Journalism
03/23/2005 01:22 PMYesterday I had a long talk about the search competition between
Google and MSN. That competition is interesting, but so was the
conversation, and what I can say about it. I was talking to a journo
from a big-name mag that you see on every newsstand. He’d just been
briefed by one of the search titans and wanted some insight from an
independent search expert. The briefing was along the lines of
“We’re gonna kill ’em dead because of X, Y, and Z” and he
wanted my take on X, Y, and Z. Here’s the problem: X, Y, and Z are
real interesting, and in particular it’s interesting that the vendor
who’d briefed him thought they were important. But you know, I
don’t think I can ethically say who the reporter was and who briefed
him and what X, Y, and Z are, even though these are things that the
vendor was trying to get published; because I didn’t think to ask
the journo. Hmm, looks like I
covered this ground
once already, in August of 2003.
that bad journalism thing
that bad journalism thing
06/15/2004 03:18 PMi think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read
Choire's NYT piece
Fairness in journalism
Fairness in journalism
06/05/2005 11:47 PMThere's an
interview with author Michael Pollan (he wrote the highly regarded
The Botany of Desire, which I have yet to read) on AlterNet.
The teaser indicates the piece is all about food and the environment,
but most of it ends up being about journalism, including this good
bit:
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal;
fairness, however, is not. Fairness forces you -- even when you're
writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as
I have done -- to make sure you represent the other side as
extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Many blog evangelists point to the success of blogs, many of which
are about as far from objective as you can get, as evidence that
objectivity isn't required in telling a story, sharing a viewpoint, or
in the search for truth. But it's important to keep Pollan's thoughts
about fairness in mind before we throw the fairness baby out with the
objectivity bath-water. So be subjective, but be fair also...you'll
find you may get more mileage out of your arguments that way.
When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News
When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News
12/22/2004 01:06 AMO PIOR do jornalismo americano em
2004
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"Webl0gs in Journalism"
"Webl0gs in Journalism"
01/26/2004 09:50 PMBackchannel Journalism
Backchannel Journalism
05/22/2004 12:30 PMJournalists have their sources, but usually have to find new sources
for new stories that don't reveal themselves while on the
investigative trail. One tool they use is Profnet, an expert system
for journalists. I have been on the expert...
a primer on how not to do journalism
a primer on how not to do journalism
05/31/2004 02:30 AMscathing self-rebuke .. Editor & Publisher .. this E&P piece ..
credibility
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Stand Alone journalism
Stand Alone journalism
06/25/2004 01:34 PMStanding
room
Like some other well-known bloggers before her, Chris Nolan is working on
turning her blog into more of a revenue-generati
ng business. I like Chris's stuff, even as I sometimes disagree
with it, because it's sharp and unpredictable and rooted in her years
of experience as a reporter, and so I wish her well in her efforts to
sell ads and subscriptions.
Lord knows it's not an easy road. Reading Chris's manifesto for
"Stand-Alone Journalism" -- she argues that's a better label for what
she does than "blogging" -- brought me back to some distant memories
from the dawn of the Web. After learning HTML and participating in the
San Franciso Free Press experiment,
I thought to myself, hey, there's nothing to stop me from starting my
own publication on the Web!
So I did. In January 1995 I took a week's
vacation time from my job at the SF Examiner and published a site. I
focused on what was then quaintly known as "multimedia"; I called it
Kludge, as a nod to its essential clumsiness and improvised nature,
and I posted an issue. This was years before personal content
management software, needless to say; it's all just cruddy hand-coded
HTML and crude self-designed graphics. But the articles weren't so bad
(hey, here's an interview with Marc
Canter! Here's a satirical take on
the CD-ROM explosion/implosion!).
What I quickly realized was that, as much fun as writing, editing
and designing all that material was -- bringing me back as it did to
my teenage roots in mimeograph publishing -- it was just the beginning
of getting a Web site going. If I was serious about making it
something more than a labor of love -- if I wasn't going to do all
that work on my vacation days -- I'd need to figure out how to get
people to visit the site, and how to sell ads, and so forth. My best
efforts involved dumping a pile of flyers in the lobby of a multimedia
conference at Moscone Center. (While I was doing that, a couple of
guys named Jerry Yang and Dave Filo stood at a booth under a big Yahoo
banner, giving away T-shirts.)
After briefly toying with the notion of applying to AOL's
Greenhouse program for funding, I thought, nah. When David Talbot
started talking about a new publication he wanted to create, I helped
persuade him that he should do it on the Web instead of in print.
Salon turned out to be a great place for me to write and edit and
build Web sites without having to wear all the hats myself (though
there have certainly been times during the last decade when my pate
has felt a little crowded).
Today, would-be "Stand-Alone Journalists" can rely on much better
software tools to create and publish their work. They can plug into
far better organized online networks to spread the word of their
activities. And they can even turn to simple plug-in approaches to
advertising, like AdWords or BlogAds, to try to bring in some cash.
But being a "Stand-Alone Journalist" still requires a combination of
journalistic and entrepreneurial traits that's rare. Being a good
journalist requires the ability to not mind pissing people off
sometimes (Nolan, whose career has had its share of controversy, is no shirker in this regard); being a
good entrepreneur demands the ability to charm people as often as
possible. Both pursuits, of course, demand persistence, patience, and,
in the face of indifference, a stubborn belief in the value of one's
undertaking.
When I read Nolan's proposed label for the solo-blogger-journalist,
the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous quote from
Ibsen's Dr. Stockman in "Enemy of the People": "The strongest man in
the world is the one who stands most alone." Standing alone has many
wonderful advantages -- it's a stirring posture. But remember what
happens to old Dr. Stockman: He is right to blow the whistle about the
polluting of his town's waters, but he's dreadfully naive about the
world around him, he's ultimately ineffective, and he fails to
accomplish much besides his own martyrdom.
So I'm not sure the "Stand-Alone Journalist" label is one that will
stick. The linked nature of the Web is ultimately even more important
than the independence of the blogger. Standing alone is useless
without being connected.
[Scott
Rosenberg]
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