So our annual spring neighborhood breakfast was this morning. Last year I had taken a bunch of photos and, then did nothing with them until late last night. I remembered my first try at Scrapblog, went back and put together a little scrapbook for our Forest Hills neighborhood in Marietta, Georgia. It is best viewed [...]
As I said yesterday, later this afternoon I will be doing an IM Interview with Eric von Hippel author of Democratizing Innovation for Jay Rosen’s Assignment Zero project on crowdsourcing. An editor there keeps wanting me to do more than I want to do. She wants more depth. That’s good, that’s what editors are for, [...]
As I said earlier, since I told Jay Rosen he was the best person to start an open source journalism project, I felt obligated to help with his Newassignment.net’s first project. Topic title is Assignment Zero and it is all about crowdsourcing.
So far, trying to get things figured out with Assignment Zero is a bit [...]
Yesterday I blogged about the Tim O’Reilly inspired idea of a Code of Conduct for bloggers. Apparently I was only one of what appears to be almost 500 others who joined the conversation. Although the Code of Conduct and being rude in the blogosphere will get all the headlines, the real headline is that hundreds [...]
Since blogs are often uncivil places there is talk about writing a code of ethics; each participating blog site could show, via a logo, its level of tolerance. Some might stress complete openness others stricter rules.
This from the New York Times about Tim O’Reilly, a book publisher who wrote the defining Web 2.0 essay, and [...]
As you might know, the Harnisch Foundation under the direction of Ruth Ann Harnisch gave us a substantial gift to start the Center for for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. We are up and running. Keep abreast of what is happening at SustainableJournalism.org 
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.