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May 10, 2006

Q&A at WorldChanging

- New Media Musings

At WorldChanging, Micki Krimmel has an interview with me about citizens media and Ourmedia. Excerpt: One of the big changes we want to make on Ourmedia in the next few months is to make it more of a community-centric... ›››

Category: Citizens media | ourmedia

May 08, 2006

Citizens reporters forum

- New Media Musings

Last June, Oh Yeon Ho, founder and CEO of the pioneering South Korean online news publication OhmyNews, welcomed a global gathering of citizens media representatives to Seoul. This July 12-15, OhmyNews is doing it again, with a kicker: They're... ›››

Category: Citizens media

May 01, 2006

The do-it-yourself video revolution

- New Media Musings

Today's San Francisco Chronicle: Video bloggers claim spotlight. Online diaries looking a lot like television. Headline aside -- online video and videoblogs decidedly do not look like television -- Ellen Lee nicely captures some of the currents of the... ›››

Category: Citizens media | Video/videoblogging

April 28, 2006

Firefox flicks

- New Media Musings

Not often that productive days are also fun, but that was the case Thursday when I talked shop with podcaster Dale Willman of Fieldnotes.tv and video site architect Todd Siegel over lunch and then headed over to a panel... ›››

Category: Citizens media | Video/videoblogging

April 26, 2006

Singapore cracks down on blogs, podcasts

- New Media Musings

At MediaShift, Mark Glaser looks at how the Singaporean government is trying to silence political speech on blogs and podcasts.... ›››

Category: Citizens media

April 24, 2006

Citizen film reviewers in the house?

- New Media Musings

Kevin Smokler is looking for citizen journalists to attend and review at least two films as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival, running now through May 4. He has 30 press passes to dispense to bloggers, podcasters... ›››

Category: Citizens media | Film

April 23, 2006

Should Josh Wolf turn over his tape?

- New Media Musings

SF Weekly: Should journalist Josh Wolf be afraid? The Assistant U.S. Attorney, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the SFPD want to get their hands on a video shot by a San Francisco blogger. At times, Josh Wolf... ›››

Category: Citizens media

April 22, 2006

Wales discusses political bias on Wikipedia

- New Media Musings

At MediaShift, Mark Glaser continues "Wikipedia Week" at PBS.org with a debate between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and blogger Robert Cox. I know both Jimmy and Robert personally so don't really want to get in the middle of this.... ›››

Category: Citizens media

April 20, 2006

Citizen photography at the San Jose Merc

- New Media Musings

Interesting promotional banner across the top of today's San Jose Mercury News: SHARE YOUR NEWS PHOTOS Video, too -- find our new blog at www.mercurynews.com This wouldn't by any chance be related to this week's purchase of citizen journalism... ›››

Category: Citizens media

April 19, 2006

Upcoming events: Vloggercon, Bloggercon and more

- New Media Musings

I'm getting a breather between conferences, so if you've been trying to reach me and your email is among the 3,000 unread messages in my in-box, try me again. Meantime, here's some of what's dead ahead: OnHollywood What: Silicon... ›››

Category: Citizens media | Media | Web/Tech

MySpace, Wikipedia cope with growing pains

- New Media Musings

Mark Glaser at MediaShift: MySpace, Wikipedia Cope With Growing Pains Also: Wikipedia Bias. Is There a Neutral View on George W. Bush?... ›››

Category: Citizens media

April 18, 2006

Bayosphere, Backfence and fostering community

- New Media Musings

Dan Gillmor's Bayosphere is now a part of Backfence. Here's Dan's explanation. Here's some short coverage by E&P. I know, like and respect Mark and Susan over at Backfence, so it'll be fun to see where this goes. I'm... ›››

Category: Citizens media

April 14, 2006

Court to rule on bloggers' First Amendment rights

- New Media Musings

I'm sooooooooo tired of the are-or-aren't-bloggers-journalists? question. But the press continues to be riveted by the issue. ABCNews.com: Apple Lawsuit Could Define Cyber 'Journalists.' California lawsuit could determine First Amendment rights of bloggers.... ›››

Category: Citizens media | free speech | weblogs

April 13, 2006

The hurly-burly of Wikipedia's citizen participation

- New Media Musings

Social media cynic Andrew Orlowski in the UK's Guardian: A thirst for knowledge. Wikipedia and other online databases provide a soupy morass of information, but where can we find the variety of views that leads to wisdom ?... ›››

Category: Citizens media

March 28, 2006

Wikicities becomes Wikia

- New Media Musings

Wikia, Inc. has just received $4 million Series A financing and has relaunched Wikicities as Wikia.com. Congratulations, folks! Here's a press release about the news.... ›››

Category: Citizens media

March 26, 2006

A podcast about participatory culture

- New Media Musings

Bill Densmore, director/editor of the Media Giraffe Project and Vice President of Media Activism and Reform for the Action Coalition for Media Education, speaks with Nicholas Reville of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Listen here. Thanks to Colin Rhinesmith for... ›››

Category: Citizens media

All the news that's fit to upload

- New Media Musings

UK's The Guardian: Picture all the news that's fit to upload. It is difficult to avoid the hype about citizen journalism, the process whereby bloggers and people with cameraphones can report news from the grassroots that old media cannot... ›››

Category: Citizens media

March 22, 2006

Newsrooms and bloggers: Let's get along

- New Media Musings

Amy Gahran at E-Media Tidbits: San Francisco Chronicle columnist Alan T. Saracevic is weary of bloggers and news professionals trashing each other. In his March 19 column "Can't the media all get along?" He offered a simple example of... ›››

Category: Citizens media

March 17, 2006

Do you have Democracy Player?

- New Media Musings

Have you downloaded your copy of participatoryculture's Democracy Player yet?... ›››

Category: Citizens media

March 12, 2006

Wikipedia: 1 million articles served

- New Media Musings

Wikipedia recently served up its 1 millionth article. The NY Times' Randall Stross remains skeptical.... ›››

Category: Citizens media

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