Just got off a conference call as a board director of the Media Bloggers Association. For several months now, I’ve been working with our Standards team to devise a set of guidelines for members of our organization (not all bloggers, mind you). As I mentioned on the call, the MBA’s members had strong feelings on […]
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A BBC reporter on citizens media
I interviewed the talented and extremely perceptive BBC technology reporter Jo Twist about the personal media revolution when we attended Gnomedex. Here’s the 8-minute video interview in MPEG-4. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Technorati tags: personal media, grassroots media, citizens media, citizen journalism, Gnomedex, BBC, HonorTagJournalism
I’m interviewed on NPR
Bob Garfield has an insightful new piece for NPR’s On the Media on what he calls the chaos theory of big media. Jeff Jarvis (briefly), Om Malik (briefly) and yours truly (briefly) are among those interviewed. See An Impending Period of Transitional Chaos for Media. I (and others) have been writing about this for some […]
What bloggers can learn from journalists
A couple of days ago, the Poynter’s Steve Outing had a piece on What journalists can learn from bloggers. He completes his two-part series today with a look at What bloggers can learn from journalists. Bloggers could better protect themselves if they took a few pages out of the reporter’s notebook. Great advice here. Excerpts: […]
Why some readers trust bloggers over journalists
An article I wrote for OJR about why some people trust bloggers more than mainstream journalists has just gone live: Transparency Begets Trust in the Ever-Expanding Blogosphere The openness of Weblogs could help explain why many readers find them more credible than traditional media. Can mainstream journalists learn from their cutting-edge cousins? And don’t miss […]