Written by After last night’s Digg fiasco and the news that Reddit just opened itself up so users can create sub-reddits I have to think back to a basic rule of the internet.
Information wants to be free. Being open always wins.
Round 2 begins now.
Monthly archives for January, 2008
Schedule a Chat With Your Sources
Yoni Green thinks ChatMaker could work for newsrooms. I think it could work to organize a live chat with “friends of your beat” — people who know and are invested in what you are reporting on.
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Social Bookmarking and Citizen Journalism
I’ve always said that social bookmarking sites like Digg and Propeller are akin to acts of citizen journalism. That’s why I recently started working for NewsTrust.
Last night proved it even more. If social news sites are about the exchange of important information – the most active people are doing acts of reporting. When that ability was seemingly taken away from them – they began to use other tools to report on and protest.
Journalism is about educating groups and causing action. That’s what happened last night. Check the beat blogging post below for a different angle on it all.
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Who is the “Online Leader in Citizen Journalism”
I was happy to hear that Helium has partnered with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
I like Helium, I’ve had the pleasure to converse with some of the editors, who attended the Networked Journalism Conference that I organized in New York. But two things trouble me about this press release:
1. Helium is not strict citizen journalism. They do creative writing and fiction too. Which is great – I’m all for it, as long as we recognize it’s not citizen journalism.
The second point is a result of this being a press release (not Heliums fault). They describe it as "the leader in online citizen journalism." Who is the leader? Orato? NowPublic, OhMyNews? Associated Content? (which is also more like Helium in my eyes – not strict citizen journalism), who?
It’s a question we should think more about. If this is indeed a "business" then there is a market leader somewhere. I don’t know who it is right now. But would love to find out. If you know or have an idea – please comment.
 clipped from www.helium.com
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Citizen Journalism in Conflict Areas
The following quote is from Jason Haber, one of the founders of iConflict. He will be writing a guest post at NewAssignment.net with more details in the near future.
"As you point out on your blog, citizen journalism arrived in 2007, but I believe 2008 will be the year it really solidifies its place in the media universe. Unlike other social media news sites, ours is very focused. We aren’t covering Britney Spears, we aren’t covering sports, gossip or news oddities. This site is about conflict and about empowering people to share and learn more about them. "
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