Narratives don't get built out of facts. Narratives tell us which facts matter. Within a narrative, it's important that journalistic reports be accurate. But accuracy is not enough to bring about intelligibility or to tear down an existing intelligibility.
-David Weinberger
Come see what all the buzz is about visit Webdiary ; Double diary, as Margo Kingston goes freelance
Even Yahoo Bets On Citizen Journalism
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Online opinion is good news for Labor
Amid all the discussion over the impact of the new forms of media on mainstream outlets, little analysis has been offered of the practical consequences for political opinion making.
These will be significant, at least in Australia. The rise of alternative online media, especially the extraordinary growth of the blogging phenomenon, may finally disturb a structural advantage long enjoyed by the conservative side of Australian politics. Much hullabaloo has been made of independent internet sites and bloggers scooping the mainstream media in breaking stories and battering it to death with fact checking. The new media's limited resources mean these achievements are only ever going to be intermittent, and the independents will never substitute for the substantive news functions of the main outlets, let alone professional investigative reporting.
• Media Analysis by Christopher Sheil [September Project ; Wollongong City Council has cut the average processing time of development applications by more than a third with a new electronic system for recording, tracking and determining development applications Delays in approvals slashed ; It stands to reason that budding businesspeople would be attracted to Weblogs, those do-it-yourself publishing sites that embody the very spirit of entrepreneurism Small Business ; New Players Offer Deep Web Access to Facilitate Online Job Search: Simply Hired and Indeed, upstarts less than a year old, are getting attention for their Google-like approach to helping people find jobs. They do for job listings what Google does for general information -- crawl or "scrape" listings from thousands of sites and create a free, searchable index in one spot." Simply Amazing; Glenbrook, run by a father-daughter team, demonstrated its technology by building a search engine that scoops up job listings from the databases of various Web sites, something the company claims most search engines cannot do Duo's search engine scours 'hidden' sites]
• · Cut & paste: Media accused of left-wing bias is too soft on Howard ; Without Struggle/No Freedom
• · · Citizen journalism - in the form of a site that edits stories professionally - has had a huge impact in South Korea. But will it work elsewhere? 'We are changing the nature of news' ; [* If you are not a subscriber to the 'Media Guardian' try Bug Me Not ]; iTalk and Media Dragon
• · · · Alterman, Keller and Moyers respond to Richard Posner's review essay Bad News; TV sports star Costas takes a pass on guest-hosting 'Larry King Live' Good Move: It's rare to see such a stance ; Cyber-fraud Bad guys are winning the war. There’s no question bad guys are winning the war...
• · · · · Razor has been having an interesting debate with ourselves, and some readers, on that post about Robert Scoble's phone number Blogs and corrections ; Wireless is everywhere these days, except in places where you really, really need it – like hotel rooms Travel in Wireless Style ; From Jim Moore's Journal: RSS-oriented search engines are appearing, including MSN search, with RSS output and one-click subscriptions to leading news aggregators MSN Search Makes RSS Easy
• · · · · · Web Search Emphasizes The Present to the Detriment of Access to Data on the Past Multiple Presents: How Search Engines Re-write the Past ; Google Has Your Data: Should You Be Afraid? ; THOMAS Will Launch New Search Engine By Year's End