Archive for January, 2008

Date: January 31st, 2008
Cate: Film
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The Daily Show Takes on Boss Rosen and Citizen Journalism

Last night I remembered that Jay Rosen was a guest on the Daily Show.
I searched far and wide for the original video and finally found a link that actually worked.

It’s not "new" (aired last year) but it still is funny to watch: "Thank you for wearing pants."

Date: January 28th, 2008
Cate: Uncategorized

Spot Journalism – Helping Journalists Investigate by Crowdfunding

"Spot Journalism" is a branding for a concept I’ve had in my brain for some time. I’ll go into more detail on it eventually. For now, it’s still kicking around. Think Kiva.org/Craigslist except aimed for the community on Poynter.

Or – for a small example of it – read below.

Blogs and Investigative journalism: fundraising

Freelance journalist David Appell repeated the experiment successfully when he asked readers of his blog to support him in investigating a sugar lobbying group (Bowman and Willis, 2003), while Talking Points Memo also relied on reader donations for its continuing existence before BlogAds allowed Josh Marshall to fund his operation through advertising (McDermott, 2007).

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Date: January 26th, 2008
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What the Journalism Industry Can Learn from Porn

clipped from www.10000words.net



What the journalism industry can learn from porn

“Everybody knows that porn drives technology; sex drives technology,” said one panelist.

Statistics vary on how much of the internet is made of porn, but there’s no denying adult themed websites had a greater presence on the internet long before news ever did.

Porn has already begun to conquer the mobile web, allowing users to view their favorite photos and videos on the go. And yet only a conservative number of media sites are optimized for cellular devices (kudos to Fox News, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, CBS News and others for their mobile optimized sites).

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Date: January 25th, 2008
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Miscellaneous Publications

Published in Columbia Journalism Review

Press Gazette

Nieman Reports

Features from Digidave.org

Misc.

Date: January 25th, 2008
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Turning This Into A Top Digger Versus Little Digger Debate Is a Farce

For the most part I am going to leave the Revoltnation blog alone. It was a tool for organizing and the need for organizing around Digg has ceased…for now.

But I can’t keep my mouth shut about this issue that comes up whenever you discuss Digg. Inevitable you hear the same shouting match: Smaller diggers complain that the top diggers are keeping them down and top diggers complain that they have it too damn hard.

The algorithm change the other night was a tipping point for action, but it was not the impetus. Anybody who thinks it’s just a matter of ego’s clashing hasn’t participated in the community enough to realize that there is a serious lack of transparency.

That is and has always been the issue: Transparency.

Revoltnation in the New York Times – The Real Issue At Hand

Regardless of how you feel towards top-diggers (and this has never been an issue of "top diggers versus others" – and anybody who falls into that trap misunderstands the issue) you have to recognize something is important when the New York Times, the paper of record, publishes a story on it.
My only complaint about the story and how the larger community has taken it: The issue at hand is about transparency. Algorithm change, top diggers, cult of personality — all of this falls to the wayside. They are all a distant second.

Transparency is what makes a democracy run well. That is what we want – and it is upon the word of Jay and Kevin that they will provide a mode of communication that this mini-protest got called off.

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