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Site invites people to become Citizen JournalistsSearching through Technorati for citizen journalism came up with Open (finds,mind, conversations) blog. It has an entry about a site asking people to become citizen journalists. It's for the UK's first online political TV channel. Posted by Bob Toovey on 16 October 2006 Mark Foley exposed via the InternetIt all seems to be falling apart for Mark Foley at the moment. The former representative sent some naughty emails and got caught out. He got caught out via the Internet. According to CNN, his correspondence (which shan't be read aloud on the TV) was first exposed on little-known Web site called Stop Sex Predators. On September 24, four days before ABC News reported Foley's e-mails with a 16-year-old page, lurid details about emails and more, first appeared. The CNN article goes on more about the details emerged, how the Internet community who at first were skeptical, not only started to believe but confirmed and expanded the story. Take a look the CNN article here. Posted by Bob Toovey on 07 October 2006 History and more of Citizen JournalismMark Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist and a Critic, Facilitator and New Media Expert. Once in a while he goes in-depth ion a subject providing history, background and references. This posting on his website goes in to Citizen Journalism. To quote his entry, The idea behind citizen journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the Internet to create, augment or fact-check media on their own or in collaboration with others Which to my mind is a very good description of Citizen Journalism. Worth reading through Posted by Bob Toovey on 02 October 2006 Coming soon, the end of newspapers!
An article on the Editors Weblog by John Burke discusses the eventual end of newspapers. Classifieds adverts have always been a good revenue generating method. However with Craigs List making it so much easier and having a broader audience, should newspapers be worried? Newspapers are having to rethink how to make money. They are under pressure from Bloggers and small ad’s sites and they are not fairing to well. Many have chosen to ignore the digital world which is becoming a very grave mistake. Is the end coming? What do you think?
Posted by Bob Toovey on 29 August 2006 Pamphlet To Blog - a short documentary I have just finished watching a good documentary about Citizen Journalism. It’s called ‘From Pamphlet to Blog’. A class at Cambridge Community Television in Massachusetts worked to create a short documentary on citizen journalism charting its early beginnings to the way it is now. The documentary is available online and is viewable within a webpage so anyone should be able to see it with an up to date browser. A few web links are mentioned during the film and the more interesting ones are, Global
Voices Online Though its only about 15 minutes or so long, it does cover the subject very well and gives some good insight in to Citizen Media. Especially good if you are looking to learn more and if this is something you have only recently come to then this makes a good introduction.
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Posted by Bob Toovey on 17 August 2006 A Webby for the Huffington Post
I have just been looking over the winners list of the Webby Awards. If you have not heard of it before, it is the leading international award that recognizes excellence in design, creativity, usability and functionality of websites. Each category has two kinds of awards, the Webby Award and the Peoples Voice award. Congrats to Arianna Huffington for winning an award for the Huffington Post site , it won both a Webby Award and a Peoples Voice award under the ‘Blog – Political’ category. The other two nominees included, BAGnewsNotes and CJR Daily Posted by Bob Toovey on 13 June 2006 The missing SideKick III mobile phone
Well this is not exactly anything to do with the press but it is a story not to be missed. What would you do if you found a mobile phone in a taxi? What would you do if yours was stolen? A friend of Evan (the owner of the page you are about to get a link to) left her mobile in a taxi by mistake. It was not returned (an easy thing to do) and was kept by this young girl who found it. The phone is on T-Mobile so the contents of it are upload to a server for safe keeping. So when the friend got her new replacement, the content was downloaded to it. Including photos taken by the girl who stole the phone plus AOL login details and a whole bunch more. This enabled Evan to track down the SideKick III and attempt to get it back. Needless to say the new owners are refusing and threatening all sorts of nastiness. Evan’s website details exactly what has been going on makes for great reading. The whole thing is being conducted in public on the internet. Evan has also been able to find MySpace accounts for some of those involved (including the brother of the villainess) which I believe have now been changed or deactivated. The big mistake for the criminals has been that they have used email and dared Evan to make this public and refused to return the phone. They have used it, which means that that T-Mobile have tracked it down and proved it has been used. Using stolen property! So of course the police are now involved. So in a way this is Citizen Journalism, as this is a crime that is ongoing and being reported. I wish the best of luck to Evan and it does show the power of public opinion and the Internet! Read more on how this
started and what has been happening at http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/ Posted by Bob Toovey on 09 June 2006 Apple versus the Blogger update
A quick update on my previous posting ‘Apple versus the Bloggers’. It seems the Bloggers have been victorious and Apple are now sulking some what. The court case Apple brought against two or three blog sites about leaks on project Asteroid has now been judged. Here is a quote from an article by Robert Andrews of Journalism.co.uk The computer company first went to court in 2004 after Jason O'Grady, publisher of Apple news site PowerPage, along with Kasper Jade of AppleInsider and Monish Bhatia of Think Secret, ran stories about an as-yet-unreleased music gadget, details of which were supplied by unnamed sources believed to be Apple employees. The shield law was enacted in 1935 in California and present in 30 other states. “…grants the ability to withold sources' names to a "publisher, editor, reporter or other person connected with or employed upon a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication". So the blog sites have been given the same sort of status as journalists. It will take a few more cases to make a good definition and of course different judges have different opinions. So it is going to take a while as yet before consensus on the actual legal status of bloggers is formed. Posted by Bob Toovey on 28 May 2006 Apple versus the Bloggers
Way back in 2004, Apple Computers became rather upset with a couple of blog sites. Details about project called Asteroid was leaked, Power Page and Apple Insider got those details and blogged about them. Apple decided to do something about it, in court. Apple did get a ruling in their favour, however the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) intervened because Apple were claiming that as the bloggers were not journalists they did not enjoy the same kind of protection as traditional journalists and should not be able to protect their sources. The appeals court has gone against Apple, arguing that it was not Apples place to decide who is and who is not a journalist. Ok that was a quick low down on what has happened and I am sure you have seen this story on the net some where already. But this case is interesting in one major aspect, once all final judgments have been made, will it come out that bloggers have the same rights as journalists? Can they protect their sources?
Apple wants to find out who leaked the details, the courts are stopping them from finding out. So when it comes down to it, will the judge decide they will never know by giving the bloggers the same protection as journalists? One question I would like to ask you the reader is – should bloggers be treated the same as journalists? When does a blogger become a journalist?
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