Jeff Jarvis has more on a proposed Citizens’ Media Association. Writes Jeff, who is the best person to lead this effort: I’m expanding this past weblogs, for we don’t know what will develop now that the people own their own printing presses and broadcast towers. And the last thing we need is to get into […]
Citizen media
Blogging, journalism and new directions
In advance of tomorrow’s BloggerCon 2, Jay Rosen at PressThink has this: Journalism and Weblogging in Their Corrected Fullness. A lot of interesting stuff here: … To me–but then I’m a professor of it–journalism is always up for grabs. That’s a principle and it needs to be maintained. But to many people I have been […]
IBM predicts age of open media
DMeurope.com: Massive changes in the terrain of media and entertainment over the next five to seven years will force tectonic shifts in the business models of broadcast and film companies, predicts a report from IBM Business Consulting Services. The report, Media & Entertainment 2010, unveiled today, says that by 2010, the landscape of the industry […]
Consumers creating content
Two blog entries at Poynter Online point to the new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reporting that 44 percent of Internet users have created content online. It’s one of the themes of my forthcoming book, so I’ll quote them extensively here. In Convergence Chaser, a friend, Howard Finberg, cites the OJR […]
Looking for feedback on book chapters
One of the questions I tossed out at the blogger dinner last night was this: How much of my book about darknets and the personal media revolution should I post in the blogosphere before publication? I obtained a rough consenses that the most useful feedback loop would be created this way: By posting the entire […]