Freewheeling 'bloggers' are rewriting rules of journalism

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USA Today: Freewheeling
'bl0ggers' are rewriting rules
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USA Today: Freewheeling
'bl0ggers' are rewriting rules
of journalism 12/31/2003 06:11 AM
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'Bloggers' are rewriting journalism

'Bloggers' are rewriting journalism 12/30/2003 03:51 AM
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Opinionated freewheelers rewriting
journalism

Opinionated freewheelers rewriting
journalism 12/30/2003 08:38 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2003 7:37AM ET

Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the
Internet

Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the
Internet 02/12/2004 07:36 PM

Slashdot | Rewriting Rules on Delivery
of the Internet

Slashdot | Rewriting Rules on Delivery
of the Internet 02/13/2004 09:17 AM
http://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."

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 PM
The new rules are expected to profoundly alter both the way the Internet is delivered and used in homes and businesses.

Surprise! Energy Lobbyists Caught
Rewriting EPA Rules... Again!

Surprise! Energy Lobbyists Caught
Rewriting EPA Rules... Again! 09/24/2004 01:46 AM
EPA is taking its marching orders .. writing EPA's regulations .. third time

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DNC Invites Some 'Bloggers' to
Convention

DNC Invites Some 'Bloggers' to
Convention 06/02/2004 04:38 PM
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Web site blockage frustrates 'bl0ggers'

Web site blockage frustrates 'bl0ggers' 01/15/2003 05:56 PM
Mr Shellen said the firm would approach mainland officials to resolve the issue and might seek advice from leading search engine Google, which suffered a ...

The Art of Rewriting Old Games

The Art of Rewriting Old Games 10/29/2003 12:10 AM
Take some of the 8-bit games you enjoyed as a kid and update them for the next generation.

Rewriting history

Rewriting history 07/23/2004 09:35 AM
Ever 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.

"Rewriting History"

"Rewriting History" 06/11/2004 03:17 AM

NYC rewriting all its city codes

NYC rewriting all its city codes 05/17/2004 12:09 AM
i wonder if code and law are similar enough that this is the mozilla of zoning laws

SitePoint: Rewriting Your Page, On the
Fly

SitePoint: Rewriting Your Page, On the
Fly 02/14/2003 04:37 PM

mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL
Rewriting

mod_rewrite: A Beginner's Guide to URL
Rewriting 10/23/2002 06:03 AM
WebmasterBase Oct 23 2002 4:58AM ET

Sender Rewriting Scheme Library 0.1
alpha

Sender Rewriting Scheme Library 0.1
alpha 02/15/2004 05:13 PM
ANSI C Implementation of the Sender Rewriting Scheme

White House rewriting core security
policy document

White House rewriting core security
policy document 11/10/2003 11:09 PM
The 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.

Court Rules Evel Knievel Is A Pimp;
Knievel Rules Judges Are Bimbos

Court Rules Evel Knievel Is A Pimp;
Knievel Rules Judges Are Bimbos 01/04/2005 08:20 PM
Really not quite sure what to make of this one, but it's too amusing to pass up. Apparently, a few years ago, ESPN posted a picture of famed daredevil Evel Knievel with his arms around two women (one of whom was his wife) with the caption: "You're never too old to be a pimp." Knievel, not realizing this was a (weak) attempt at complimenting him, sued ESPN for defamation. A lower court tossed out the ruling, and he appealed. Now the Appeals Court has ruled against him as well, noting that, based on the context no one is actually going to think Knievel is a "pimp," and, in fact that the statement was supposed to be a positive one, as the slang of the day suggests. Knievel, apparently lacking a sense of irony over this particular case, has responded by calling the judges "bimbos." The full quote is: "They ruled against the law. What good is law in the United States of America if five or six goddamn bimbos are going to rule against it?" You think he intended that as a compliment? Anyway, in the meantime, feel free to go on captioning photos on the web while calling people pimps.

Online Resume Rules Sound Like Offline
Resume Rules

Online Resume Rules Sound Like Offline
Resume Rules 09/13/2004 02:14 PM
USA Today is claiming that the rules have changed for resumes, now that they're mostly sent via email instead of snail mail. However, when they get into the details, they sound amazingly like the "rules" many of us learned back in the days before you emailed resumes: focus on results from previous jobs (read: throw in lots of useless percentages to make it look like you improved something), use "descriptive or significant terms" (read: make sure you include the BS buzzwords-of-the-moment to make it through that first pass filter), don't send the wrong cover letter to the wrong company (read: don't be completely stupid), and don't apply "above your skill level" (read: don't waste HR's time so much). I remember hearing all of these years ago as well, and they don't seem any different in this "new age of electronic resumes" as the article would have you believe. Then, of course, there's the biggest recommendation for this supposed new age: they suggest you spam as many companies as possible. Again, has there ever been a time when people were told to send out fewer resumes? If anything, it seems like this strategy is the wrong strategy in the digital age where HR folks are so inundated with resumes that some have found that going back to paper resumes is much more effective in getting attention.

ESP Journalism

ESP Journalism 07/28/2004 09:54 PM
At 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....

Bloggers vs. Journalism

Bloggers vs. Journalism 02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Mieto 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[1].

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

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Stand Alone journalism

Stand Alone journalism 06/25/2004 01:34 PM

Standing 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]

Innovations in Journalism

Innovations in Journalism 02/16/2004 01:22 PM
Making the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch Blogdex as this link rises, I'm actually going...

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.)

Participatory journalism

Participatory journalism 08/16/2004 11:52 AM

Participatory (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.

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism

Jay on whether 9/11 changed journalism 08/14/2004 08:22 AM
Jay 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...

Reverse Journalism

Reverse Journalism 03/23/2005 01:22 PM
Yesterday 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.

Martyrs for the cause of journalism

Martyrs for the cause of journalism 07/26/2004 07:21 AM
They 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.

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News

When the Journalism Itself Was the Bad
News 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
O PIOR do jornalismo americano em 2004

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Lazy Journalism

Lazy Journalism 12/17/2003 08:29 AM
Richard 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.

"Webl0gs in Journalism"

"Webl0gs in Journalism" 01/26/2004 09:50 PM

that bad journalism thing

that bad journalism thing 06/15/2004 03:18 PM
i think it's the Tribune's way of saying they think nobody read Choire's NYT piece

New Journalism Panel

New Journalism Panel 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
I 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...

a primer on how not to do journalism

a primer on how not to do journalism 05/31/2004 02:30 AM
scathing self-rebuke .. Editor & Publisher .. this E&P piece .. credibility

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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.

Backchannel Journalism

Backchannel Journalism 05/22/2004 12:30 PM
Journalists 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...
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