Beginning with a question of whether blogs can be hosted on a specific Web site, a colleague of mine wondered if I'd give him some suggestions about getting started blogging. Here's a version of the answer I e-mailed to him How to Pick Blog Software
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Citizen Journalism: citizen bloggers
The citizen-journalism movement is where journalism is heading. Newspapers, if they want to stay in the game, need to acknowledge the "lecture" model of journalism is dying, and join in the "conversation."
Earlier this month, the Poynter Institute (where I work as a senior editor for Poynter.org) held its Web+10 Seminar. It was a fascinating exploration of what journalism will look like in the next 10 years. And a big chunk of the discussion was about what we're calling "citizen journalism." The journalism leaders (mostly from the Web side of the business) who participated in that seminar seemed pretty certain that community members' involvement in producing the news was an inevitable and desirable component of the future of journalism.
• In Defense of Citizen Journalism [ Silicon Valley Watcher ; A blog doesn't need a clever name ]
• · Mark Ranford, Stratagility
• · · President, Ludicorp (Flickr) - blogging since May 4, 1998 Stewart Butterfield
• · · · Blog Aggregator J K Baumga
• · · · · Bloglines: Corporate Engagement
• · · · · · Today Part Seven is Up: Bill Ives is running Blog Excitement series in February 2005