Just tripped across this example of first-person blog journalism from last week. Blogger Andy Baio reported on the elderly driver who careened through a farmers market just outside Baio’s office window in Santa Monica, Calif., on July 16. He had been walking down that street 20 minutes before. Baio described “the dead and dying” lying […]
Blogger-journalist story
Several months ago I read an item about a journalist who raised a few thousand dollars through reader contributions on his weblog to finance his trip to some location. I thought I blogged it, but now I can’t find it, and I need it for inclusion in a report I’m editing on participatory journalism. (And […]
Stories of participatory journalism
I’m working on an article for the Online Journalism Review about participatory journalism. I’m looking for examples of it. If you, or someone you know, has committed an act of participatory journalsm, drop me a line. I’m not so much interested in the restaurant review you posted on your weblog. I’m thinking more about things […]
Back early from I-Law
So I’m back from the Internet Law conference at Stanford Law School already. It’s a worthy lineup and an endlessly fascinating subject being addressed over the course of five days. I had originally planned on spending two full days in Palo Alto, but personal business and a looming deadline on my book project both intervened. […]
Moblogs: roving personal media outlets
Speaking of ReadMe, a while back Lisa Le Fevre interviewed me on the subject of moblogging. Turns out her piece appeared in ReadMe a couple of weeks back: The Three M’s of Moblogs: Mobile Phone Blogging, Real-time Mobility and Mob Media. Whether they serve as personal travellogs, political weapons or media outlets on the go, […]