Citizen media

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 […]

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, […]

I’m quoted in an article, Blogging: the new journalism?, that went up today in DotJournalism.co.uk, the British equivalent of the Online Journalism Review. It’s instructive, if only for how resistant traditional journalists remain to the blogging phenomenon. The head of BBCNews.com surprisingly proves himself to be an old-schooler by claiming, “Dissemination of information is great, […]

Beyond ‘Is it or isn’t it journalism?’: How blogs and journalism need each other Here are the remarks I prepared for the March 9, 2003, panel discussion on Old vs. New Journalism at the 10th annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. Other panelists were Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Joshua […]

I’m just back from the South by Southwest conference, a bit earlier than I expected. Wanted to stay for the last day to hear presentations by Po Bronson, Cory, Richard Florida (“The Rise of the Creative Class”) and others. But had to get back for family affairs. Had planned to blog there but was too […]