Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandberg
After all, democracy is built on the principle that large groups know how to govern themselves - A review of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People and other media related books Group Rethink - A new First Amendment Center/AJR survey finds that 69 percent of the public thinks journalists should be allowed to keep a news source confidential A Source of Encouragement
The Blog, The Press, The Media: All hail the Citizen Journalism?
Blogs are indeed a democratic wonder - the first instance in human history where an ordinary individual can communicate her or his thoughts to the entire planet, instantly, and without editing by the elites of journalism or government
Don't fall for the hype behind inflated blog numbers. The cause of blogging is not helped by unwarranted and blind enthusiasm about their success that ignores the threats to their authenticity and independence
• Will Blogs Go Bust? [ Media Column: Citizen Journalism- Fad or here to stay?; Yahoo bets on citizen journalism ; Prologue to a Radio Interview about 'Citizen Journalism' ; Pete Clifton, editor of the BBC News website, takes some flak for not paying for citizen journalism Editing Citizen Journalism ; Ethics issue for citizen snappers ; From the editor's desktop ; Citizen journalism: Dealing with dinosaurs ; Jemima Kiss News round-up: Citizen journalism is officially cool ]
• · Matt of CitizenSpin has colourful follow up tread on 5 August and 6 August on Citizen Journalism UK Consumer generated media – will it work? and repectively Should citizen journalists be paid?
• · · At first glance, this looks like yet another search engine Finding the pieces ; The PayPal Wars: Battles With eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth Who Killed PayPal? ; State of the Blogosphere - Think of it as the global thought bubble of a single voluble species Measuring the Blogosphere
• · · · Why Robert Novak Stormed Off the Set ; Cussing, walking off show gets Novak suspended by CNN ; Novak Apologizes for Swearing on CNN Air; You've seen the future and it (a) works, (b) is just a load of spam Getting up to mischief ; Another Radio Station Falls to Fox News ; PR pitch
• · · · · The future of news is digital Journalism is a Verb, Not a Platform ; One reason I like spending time in Mexico is the perspective I gain there - the discussion among journalists is much more basic - how to avoid government censure, how to avoid shutdown and even how to stay alive The News About Noticias ;
• · · · · · As most of the world knows, Steven is dead in Iraq, murdered, it seems likely. Kathryn Jean Lopez on National Review Online Pays tribute to Freedom’s Reporter, Steven Vincent ; The age of surveillance: a new dotcom boom Will the era of digital networks and terrorism produce the worst of both worlds?