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Archive for September, 2005

Guardian Adds Citizen Travel Feature to Redesign

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

You probably already know that The Guardian went tabloid or really Berliner earlier this week, but it also is redesigning its relationship to its audience, saying:
The relaunched Guardian signals not just a change for the look of the newspaper but a redefining of aspects of our journalism in a digital age which brings the [...]

Arianna Profits from and is consumed by blogs

Friday, September 16th, 2005

Read Adam L. Penenberg’s interview with Arianna Huffington. She tells why she loves blogs, why her life is begin consumed by them, and why she hates bad use of anonymous sources. She says:
When bloggers decide that something matters, they chomp down hard and refuse to let go. They’re the true pit bulls of reporting. [...]

More on New Orleans DVD, Evacuate Thyself Plan

Friday, September 16th, 2005

The Los Angeles Times answered at least some of my questions about the outcome of the city, state and federal non-plan plan for New Orleans that simply told the city’s poor, aged and infirm to evacuate themselves.
First I wrote an op-ed piece about it in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Then I blogged a suggested [...]

Salon’s Katrina Timeline: The Bigger Brain Works

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Notice in the paragraph below, Salon’s nod to how it expanded its brain power by tapping into the blogosphere and the wiki folks to build its timeline of the Katrina disaster. This should help the news media to understand the power of the people:
Salon produced the following timeline of the events through Tuesday, Sept. [...]

So What Is a Citizen Journalist?

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Professor Nikhil Moro here at Kennesaw State tipped me off about a new Google blog search engine, so I tried out citizen journalism and came across this quote from the blog Notes from a Teacher:
we’re not seeing the development of a single creature called a citizen journalist. There are a range of participants and…intentions. [...]

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