Category: Journalism

  • b!X's postmortem on Portland Communiqué

    The One True b!X shuttered his citizen journalism site in September of this year (it launched in 2002). In Coda he looks back on that decision and elaborates on three major motivators: * Growing weariness with the prominence of demagoguery. * Major local stories looming on the horizon. * Inevitable future dominance of the financial…

  • Chris Nolan's 'Spot-On'

    I meant to blog about this as soon as I heard, but better late than never. Chris Nolan has rebranded and relaunched her journalistic group weblog (time to update those RSS feeds…). It’s now called Spot-On. The new design is polished and handles the ads much more gracefully. Chris Nolan is the site’s editor (and…

  • Reporters without Borders releases blog-censorship handbook

    Via the Beeb: A handbook that offers advice to bloggers who want to protect themselves from recrimination and censors has been released by Reporters Without Borders.

  • The Times inching toward a bloggish attitude?

    Metasnark about the Times “What’s Online” column from O’Reilly Radar (The NY Times Gets into the Blog Spirit): Today’s New York Times’ What’s Online column, by Dan Mitchell, contains this nice little tidbit: OH, WE HAVE A BLOG? Red Hat Software, the Linux distributor, may have had big things in mind when it started its…

  • Did everybody forget their passwords?

    The Guardian (UK) has a go at Arianna Huffington’s new celebrity group blog: With friends like these … (via the Well’s blog conference)

  • Rageboy recounts a cautionary tale

    Over at Chief Blogging Officer Christopher “clootrane” Locke tells how his current project was nearly derailed at its outset by sloppy journalistic practices, but the forces of light prevailed and all’s well that end’s swell in RageTown.

  • WikiNews to chat with bloggers

    Jimmy Wales is inviting bloggers to

  • Annotating the Winer/Trippi podcast

    Over at Civilities, Jon Garfunkel has done provided us all a useful service by partly transcribing and commenting on the recent Dave Winer interview of Joe Trippi that deals with Zephyr Teachout’s take on the Dean campaign’s hiring of Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas as consultants (Dissecting the Most Important Podcast Interview to Date). Disclosure:…

  • Ten important ideas about blogging (and legacy media)

    How to Save the World delivers another trenchant run-down on the state of blogging and the media as a whole.

  • Does blogging need an ethics committee?

    Quoting from Blog Ethics Committee, Blog Publishers Association, and the evil Word of Mouth Marketing folks – The Jason Calacanis Weblog – calacanis.weblogsinc.com :  Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog ethics committee…

  • Blogging the vote count / election fraud story

    in Freeing the facts, California Insider Dan Weintraub writes: This NY Times piece on the role of blogs in fanning, and then debunking, stories of fraud in the presidential vote carries at least a mildly handwringing tone, as if somehow this turn of events was unfortunate. I disagree.

  • Blogs no threat to mainstream media (CBS news)

    With apologies to Truman Capote, CBS News writer Eric Engberg says blogging during the election was typing, not journalism: The public is now assaulted by news and pretend-news from many directions, thanks to the now infamous “information superhighway.” But the ability to transmit words, we learned during the Citizens Band radio fad of the 70’s,…

  • Is Kos a public figure?

    House Majority Whip Tom DeLay notes that Daily Kos is supporting his opponent, Mr. Morrison (one of the Kos Dozen), asserting “Mr. Morrison also has taken money and is working with the Daily Kos, which is an organization that raises money for fighters against the U.S. in Iraq.” Markos laughsthis off (Daily Kos :: TX-22:…

  • Towards a more nuanced view of the role of blogs in political journalism

    Over at Personal Democracy Forum (disclosure: I am a contributing editor there), Jed Miller takes issue with the sensationalism in the way that blogs have been covered in the media this season (It’s a Spitball! It’s a Filter!): Maybe I’m oversensitive after all the is-not/is-too-ism of the political season, but it seems to me that…

  • Help Kos write his Guardian column

    Markos is thinking about discussing Furious George‘s debate performance in his Guardian co,umn, but he’s not sure that’s the most effective way to help his British readers understand the U.S. presidential election. he’s asked the Daily Kos community to give him advice and suggestions about what to write. (His deadline seems to be this evening.)

  • Blog pundits in the mix

    The Wall Street Journal quoted liberally (no pun intended) from a range of prominent political weblogs in its roundup of debate reactions culled equally from television and the print press (Shaping Opinions: Early Reactions From TV, Bloggers, Newspapers). Some examples from the newly influential Powerline and the always pithy Pandagon: Power Line: John H. Hinderaker…

  • Jay Rosen sets up Sky Box blog for RNC

    Jay explains why he calls it Skybox in an entry today. Reminder: I’ll be blogging the RNC myself, for this blog, as well as for Edgewise and The Power of Many. I may even finish my essay for Greater Democracy one of these days.

  • Are journalists journalists?

    Duncan Black (aka Atrios) indulges in some rare metablogging at Eschaton: One question I find rather silly is the “is blogging journalism?” question. The fact is, most of what we’ve agreed to collectively call “journalism” isn’t really “journalism” – or, to the extent that it is, much of it isn’t any different from blogging.

  • 'I am proud to call myself a blogger'

    Dan Froomkin gets it (CJR Campaign Desk interview): I am proud to call myself a blogger. Not all blogs need to be all blog things. Typically, a blog is updated around the clock; mine isn’t. Typically a blog is unedited; mine is edited. Typically, a blog includes a lot of personal opinion; mine doesn’t. But…

  • to blog the Democratic National Convention

    for Edgewise, a political weblog,

  • I too wish Deborah Tannen had a blog

    Is it hte political season that makes me blog more about journalism in this blog about blogging? Doc Searls has some interesting thoughts and pointers aobut how the press reports and conceal: Say No More.