PJNet

The PJNet’s first year is coming to an end. It’s been a great year for public journalism. We formed this new organization and have this vibrant website. The journalism establishment knows we are alive and well.
Most importantly with the advent of weblogs, new possibilities for public journalism and citizen involvement abound. There will be [...]

This from USA Today:

Freewheeling ‘bloggers’ are rewriting rules of journalism
By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — They used to be known as the boys on the bus: the big-name columnists, network TV producers and reporters for large-circulation newspapers who had the power to make or break a presidential candidate’s reputation. Now they’ve got competition.
In the [...]

I have an article in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution about weblogging and its effects on public journalism.
I mention that Dan Gilmore, who writes the eJournal Weblog at SiliconValley.com, is asking his readers to help him write a book on the intersection of journalism, technology and Weblogging.
I write in part:
Collectively, he says, his readers know far [...]

I have an article in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution about weblogging and its effects on public journalism.
I write in part:
Now thanks to Weblogs, the people have a revolutionary publishing tool at their fingertips that is forcing journalists to pay attention. Intermediaries are no longer needed as public journalism morphs into the public’s journalism.

I am staying in a New England farm house built in 1829, which was not long after this country was founded. It’s still on a dirt road and physically not much has changed, except connectivity. First there was a ford across the Swift River down the hill, then the Durgin Covered Bridge . Later came [...]