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Cone: Blogging Like Ivy; It Sleeps, Creeps, Leaps

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Amanda Congdon has a nice video interview with Ed Cone, the Greensboro blogger, who among other snippets of wisdom says local blogging is like ivy. The first year it sleeps, the second it creeps and the third it leaps. He also says writing with hyperlinks is like 3D writing. It is not flat on a [...]

More From Rosen on NewAssignment.Net

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Slashdot did a long interview with Jay Rosen about his his project NewAssignment.net. Now it is posted at Pressthink.
Here is one important Rosen answer for anyone thinking of starting an open source project:

Everyone I have consulted about open source projects of any kind has stressed one thing over and over: the importance of understanding what [...]

Community Action Network Explained

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Mark Tapscott, who is sitting in for Mark Glaser at MediaShift, explains how the Washington Examiner Community Action Network (WECAN) functions. He writes:

This project is barely in its infancy but is worth watching because it combines elements of citizen media and open-source journalism, with a semi-traditional daily newspaper.

After describing how the Examiner is putting government [...]

Community Action Network Explained

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Mark Tapscott, who is sitting in for Mark Glaser at MediaShift, explains how the Washington Examiner Community Action Network (WeCAN) functions. He writes:

This project is barely in its infancy but is worth watching because it combines elements of citizen media and open-source journalism, with a semi-traditional daily newspaper.

After describing how the Examiner is putting government [...]

Cyberspace Journalism Handbook for Developing Nations

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

India ENews.com lists online resources for journalists in developing nations. For example, there is the Gender for Journalists toolkit, developed by the Commonwealth Press Union. Several other useful sites are also listed.

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