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I know how important it is for journalists to have multiple skills and that in the 24/7 news cycle there is even more pressure to shoot photos, do audio and video and produce lots of stories. Yes, all of that is important, but I also know as someone who was a magazine editor, who put [...]

I have been away from blogging this weekend to put some time in with my family. It’s a good way to introduce the Social Ties chapter of Yochai Benkler’s book The Wealth of Networks in which he writes about how are our lives, and those we reach out to, are impacted by the Internet.
Benkler says [...]

My contribution to Jay Rosen’s Assignment Zero is this IM Interview with MIT professor Eric von Hippel stems from me being intrigued by two topics — lead users and free revealing –explained in depth in his book Democratizing Innovation. But I was surprised as the interview started to be a little testy even though I [...]

Amy Gahran at the Poynter’s E-Media tidbits writes the:

shooting at Virginia Tech is destined to become one of those cornerstone events in citizen journalism and participatory media.

Plus the Breaking News page at Poynter provides plenty of links. Another Poynter page with this headline Students Tell Va. Tech Story Through Cell Video, Blogs, Forums adds:

If you [...]

Here is an open letter for Frank Rich and The New York Times:
In the Sunday New York Times columnist Frank Rich, like every other cultural critic, writes about Imus’s racially degrading remarks. However, Rich’s most heartfelt disdain can be heard here:

The biggest cliche of the debate so far is the constant reiteration that this will [...]