Broadcast live video with blogTV
One of the interesting startups I'll have to take a closer look at when I get home is blogTV.com. I met their CEO, Guy Eliav, two days ago at TheMarker conference in Tel Aviv. I mentioned that Blogtalkradio will be getting heavily into video one of these days, and they're well aware of that. blogTV lets anyone set up live broadcasts via easy-to-use webcams.
April 15, 2008 at 04:20 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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A blogger posse in Israel
I’ve been swamped over the past two weeks readying for a last-minute trip to Israel. I’m honored to be past of a blogger/citizen journalist delegation heading to the Holy Land.
The trip was arranged and paid for by the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, which covers California and the greater West, though we’ll be paying for some items. The goal is to meet and mingle with some of the best and brightest in Israel’s tech field.
Here’s who’s going: Robert Scoble, Craig Newmark, Susan Mernit, Cathy Brooks, Deb Schultz, Jeff Saperstein, Brad Reddersen, Renee Blodgett, Sarah Lacy and the consulate’s Ishmael Khaldi.
Some of the places we intend to hit: Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, of course, Peres Center for Peace, Weitzman Institute, the Marker conference, Matam (Israel’s oldest high-tech industrial park), the Garage Geek Party, a blogger dinner with high-tech luminaries organized by the super-nice Ayelet Noff, the Bedouin village of Khawalid — and, I’m hoping, Hebron and Bethlehem in the West Bank. We won’t be posting minute-by-minute updates because of security concerns in some cases, but expect tons of videos and photos.
With the help of Chad Capellman, I set up my first WordPress blog (and liked the process quite a bit more than TypePad, which SocialMedia.biz still uses). I may move this blog over to WP soon. So here’s our group blog:
TravelingGeeks.com (yeah, I came up with the name).
It’ll be interesting to see how all this works out, and whether the Israeli government thinks the output was worth it. (On the question of paid trips I like the bloggers’ approach: Let’s disclose the arrangement and maintain our independence by writing what we’d like.)
But a far more interesting thing to look for will be: How will these bloggers communicate their journey? Most will publish to their individual blogs (TravelingGeeks will attempt to aggregate these posts through RSS feeds, so they needn’t post directly to the group site). Others will post to Flickr (with the tag innovationisrael). Others will twitter. Scoble will go nuts, as usual, with multiple media streams, including live streaming at Qik.
Some will emphasize the visual, through video, SLRs and point-and-shoot cameras, while others will write mostly text. Some will think about leaving long, substantive posts that can withstand the test of time while others will dash off quick tweets. Some will try to post whenever they’re in range of wi-fi, while others may wait until the sanctuary of their hotel rooms late at night.
We’ll kick this off this weekend. It will be a live experiment in group dynamics, personal media habits and gadget hound one-upsmanship.
And it should be a hell of a lot of fun. I fly out in the morning.
April 9, 2008 at 03:15 PM in Citizen media, Israel, Podcasting, Social-media, Web/Tech | Permalink
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Would-be writers find readers, paychecks online
Associated Press: Would-be writers find readers, paychecks online.
In her spare time, away from her duties as a chemicals specialist in the Army, Angie Papple fires up her computer and writes an article about something close to her, like life in the military. Other times, she'll analyze a piece of software. Or she'll churn out advice for travelers to Hawaii, where she lives, or Puerto Rico, where she's never been.
Some of these pieces bring her mere pocket change. The most lucrative ones earn about $40. Most of all, though, she's thrilled to be considered a writer.
"It was just a big surprise that someone would actually want to give me money for writing," Papple says. "It really shocked me at first."
The Internet is full of words written for no money at all, just for passion. And it's veined with pieces (like this one) written in someone's regular line of work. Now, though, more and more online copy is being cranked out by a hybrid class: people like Papple, happy to serve as ultra-low-cost freelancers for sites that - unlike many personal blogs - actually get readers.
Greasing the wheels are sites like Helium, ThisIsBy.Us and Associated Content, which dangle micro amounts of pay to amateur writers willing to contribute material. Virtually any topic is open, from advice about child-rearing to an exegesis of mood rings. ...
March 25, 2008 at 10:38 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Is citizen media skipping small-town America?
Steven Clift at the IdeaLab blog: Is Citizen Media Skipping Small Town America?
I've stumbled across a number of sites like Flickrvision and its cousin Twittervision which show real-time geo-tagged content. Panoramio shows photos from Google Earth. Placeopedia and WikiMapia are trying to get people to manually link place-based Wikipedia pages to maps. My friends with Placeblogger allow you to search by place, but I don't want to type in village after village. The best site I've found that seems to get, is FindNearBy.Net which maps Craiglist and EBay sale items.
All in all, touristic rural areas do pretty well with photos online, but finding blogs/blog posts, video, wiki pages, online forums without highly focused geographic term searches seems near impossible. ...
March 21, 2008 at 12:47 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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How to build a successful news blog
From Maki at doshdosh: How to Build a Successful News Blog: 10 Information Sources You Can Use.
March 20, 2008 at 09:28 PM in Citizen media, New media, Social-media | Permalink
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Blogging networks raising $$
At TechCrunch, Mike Arrington rants about blogging networks raising money.
Just a month ago VentureBeat
reported a $320,000 raise. In 2007 we saw Sugar Inc.
March 20, 2008 at 01:03 AM in Citizen media, New media, Weblogs | Permalink
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No returning to era of all elites all the time
In response to this week's Newsweek article Revenge of the Experts suggesting the expert is back and user-created content is on the wane, columnist Tom Regan offers this in today's Christian Science Monitor: Credible Web? It's where we click most. Expertise is essential online, but the Internet's real 'killer app' is choice.
I'm quoted in the piece. Here are some additional thoughts:
An expert in the Newsweek article said, the world is "too dangerous a place for faulty information." People can deal with vetting information in two ways: rely solely on experts and authority figures. Or become a fact-checker, treating unverified information with skepticism and consulting multiple sources — professionals and amateurs alike — to get at the truth.
I've seen very little evidence that the sweeping cultural shifts we've seen in the past half dozen years show any signs of retreating. This is just a bit of wishful thinking on the part of traditional media folks.
As Doc Searls likes to say, this is or thinking, when it should be about and thinking. Experts and amateurs will continue to offer useful, reliable news and information.
Young, tech-savvy people in particular now typically rely on social networks that they've fashioned to take cues from their friends on which movies to see, books to read or vacation destinations to target. And didn't Lonely Planet Guide successfully explore this terrain for travel and Zagat's for dining back in the '90s?
The old guard will forever sniff at the likes of Wikipedia, but young people have learned to trust ourselves rather than relying exclusively on a caste of experts. Most of us are experts in one subject or another. The dissolution of information monopolies at the local level spells trouble for professional journalists at hundreds of U.S. newspapers that will vanish in the next decade.
Millions of cell phones now are capable of capturing fairly high-quality video. Just this week I learned of a new site, Qik, that will let any of these devices stream live video, further speeding the obsolescence of professional reporters on the scene of a news event.
Hardly a day goes by that I don't receive an email from a newspaper reporter asking for job leads in the tech startup world. That doesn't bode well for the cult of the expert.
To be sure, too many readers are still too credulous about what appears on the Internet. (The latest video hit piece on Barack Obama making the rounds is testament to that.) We need to fine-tune our B.S. meters and do a better job in figuring out that not all sources are created equal.
Web 3.0 will not be about turning back the clock to the era of elites and experts. It will be about making this hyperconnected global social network more relevant to our lives.
Having said all this, I think it's true that we'll remain attracted as
a society to professional entertainment rather than
information. We'll still have a bifurcated world where top-tier
writers, producers and technicians dazzle us with profound, gripping
stories. But they no longer have a monopoly on entertainment, as millions
of grassroots media makers also take to the stage with stories worth sharing.
March 19, 2008 at 01:43 PM in Citizen media, Media | Permalink
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Wikipedia: Reaching out, growing up
LA Times via San Jose Mercury News: Wikipedia: Reaching out, growing up. (San Jose Merc illustration)
March 18, 2008 at 09:24 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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It's always about the money
Terry Heaton's latest is a keeper: It's Always About the Money. Excerpt:
As Upton Sinclair wrote long ago, "It's hard to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." This is our problem. This is our sin, one for which we can only assign blame to the mirror. Some local media companies are about to die — as in, go away permanently — if we don't do something about it.
J.D. Lasica first coined the term "Personal Media Revolution" in his seminal book, Darknet, Hollywood's War Against The Digital Generation, and it is complex and profound. However, most people in media think of it as just bloggers and YouTube and Facebook and such. The demagoguery of Andrew Keen in his book, Cult of the Amateur has done considerable harm to media company thinking, because it badly misses what's really taking place and instead offers a "professionals versus amateurs" theme.
The problem is that the rise of personal media includes the use of its technology by businesses, and this is the ultimate disruptor for professional media and the advertising industry that supports it. When a business creates a dynamic website, it becomes a media company, and nobody knows this better than our friends at Google. Go back and look at the iceberg, for the rise of personal media is supported by the internet pureplay companies, who view the Web itself as their business platform. ...
I'll be writing more about the experts vs. amateurs meme later this week.
March 18, 2008 at 12:34 AM in Citizen media, Media, New media | Permalink
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The state of the news media is troubled
The Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released its annual State of the News Media report. From the introduction:
The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago.
And the problems, increasingly, appear to be different than many experts have predicted.
Critics have tended to see technology democratizing the media and traditional journalism in decline. Audiences, they say, are fragmenting across new information sources, breaking the grip of media elites. Some people even advocate the notion of “The Long Tail,” the idea that, with the Web’s infinite potential for depth, millions of niche markets could be bigger than the old mass market dominated by large companies and producers.
The reality, increasingly, appears more complex. Looking closely, a clear case for democratization is harder to make. Even with so many new sources, more people now consume what old media newsrooms produce, particularly from print, than before. Online, for instance, the top 10 news Web sites, drawing mostly from old brands, are more of an oligarchy, commanding a larger share of audience, than in the legacy media. The verdict on citizen media for now suggests limitations. And research shows blogs and public affairs Web sites attract a smaller audience than expected and are produced by people with even more elite backgrounds than journalists ...
March 18, 2008 at 12:26 AM in Citizen media, Media | Permalink
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How to publish your own book
Veronica Belmont at a recent Mahalo Daily: How to Publish Your Own Book.
March 17, 2008 at 11:59 PM in Books, Citizen media | Permalink
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Newsweek's 'Revenge of the Experts'
Newsweek: Revenge of the Experts. The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.
In my view, it's never been an either/or proposition, but Newsweek is engaging in wishful thinking if they believe that the move to user-created material is a fleeting proposition.
March 17, 2008 at 02:05 AM in Citizen media, Media, Web/Tech | Permalink
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Qik: Stream your life from your phone
Been watching some of Scoble's spur-of-the-moment videos on Qik. Says the site: "Go live with your life by streaming anytime, anywhere — right from your phone. Be an eyewitness, capture those first steps, or whip up your own streaming video blog."
Certainly this should be of interest to citizen journalists and others covering live events.
March 15, 2008 at 06:37 PM in Citizen media, Video, Web/Tech | Permalink
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Obama in 30 Seconds
One of the most astonishing displays of citizen media during the 2004 presidential campaign occurred when tens of thousands of people submitted entries to MoveOn's Bush in 30 Seconds contest.
Now MoveOn has announced a new ad contest, Obama in 30 Seconds. The winner will receive a gift certificate for $20,000 in video equipment and the winning ad will air nationally.
You can submit ads from March 27 to April 1 before MoveOn's members start voting. The final winners will be chosen by a panel of judges that includes Lawrence Lessig, Markos Moulitsas, Matt & Ben, DJ Spooky, Jesse Jackson, Steve Buscemi, Naomi Wolf, Ben Affleck, Oliver Stone and others.
MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser has more at the video above.
March 13, 2008 at 04:35 PM in Citizen media, Politics | Permalink
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How 3 citizen media sites are covering the election
Over at PBS's MediaShift, Mark Glaser offers an interesting look at three team efforts of "semi-pro journalists" who are covering the U.S. presidential election: PurpleStates.tv, MTV's Street Team and the Huffington Post's Off the Bus (including Amanda Michel, an old friend, above).
Mark says, "So far, the three projects have done a good job of bringing up new topics that resonate more with real voters -- but they haven't received much notice from the public and their sites suffer from poor navigation." He offers a mid-term report card for each one.
March 13, 2008 at 04:09 PM in Citizen media, New media, Politics | Permalink
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Community journalism in Philadelphia
The New York Times takes a look at community journalism in Philadelphia. (NY Times photo)
“We are uncomfortable with the term ‘citizen journalism,’ ” said Todd Wolfson, 35, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the organizers of the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia. “We prefer the term ‘community journalism.’ ” ...
Wolfson had a point: many of the people whom his organization and an immigrant rights group, Juntos, are teaching to make video reports for streaming on the Internet are not citizens. Many are not even legal residents.
The hope, however, is that they can be journalists. ...
March 11, 2008 at 12:04 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Legal guide for citizen publications
David Ardia at the IdeaLab blog: Citizen Media Law Project Publishes Newsgathering Legal Guide. Here's an excerpt from this invaluable effort.
Here is a quick rundown of the sections we've just published:
- Entering the Property of Others discusses your rights to access public and private property and provides some guidance on how to avoid legal liability for trespass.
- Gathering Private Information outlines the various privacy laws that may limit your ability to gather private information or otherwise intrude into another person's private space.
- Recording Phone Calls, Conversations, Meetings and Hearings discusses federal and state laws relating to the use of recording devices in specific private and quasi-public settings.
- Acquiring Documents and Other Property addresses the laws affecting your ability to gather documents and other tangible property that belongs to others, including the government.
- Protecting Sources and Source Material examines the legal challenges you may face in maintaining the confidentiality of your sources and source material and discusses the federal and state laws that may protect you from forced disclosure of your newsgathering materials.
The legal guide, which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is intended for use by citizen media creators with or without formal legal training and addresses the legal issues that you may encounter as you gather information and publish your work online. It covers the fifteen most populous U.S. states and the District of Columbia. You can search the legal guide by keyword, browse by state, or simply navigate through it like a book.
Best of all, the creators ask the rest of us to update the guide with corrections and more recent information by using their contact form.
March 6, 2008 at 12:05 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Sorting through Miro's 3,700 channels
From Nick Reville at Miro this weekend:
We have just rolled out a major new feature for Miro: channel recommendations! When you open Miro, the first screen you see is the Miro Guide, a listing of 3,700 free internet video channels. Starting today, when you rate channels that you like, we'll give you recommendations of channels that we think you'll also like. It's really nice. To start, just open Miro and click on 'Channels You'll Love' in the top bar.
March 3, 2008 at 12:32 AM in Citizen media, Video | Permalink
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Citizen journalism in Sri Lanka
The risky plight of the citizen journalist in Sri Lanka.
March 2, 2008 at 12:29 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Roles of bloggers, journalists blurring more than ever
Mark Glaser at PBS's MediaShift: Distinction Between Bloggers, Journalists Blurring More Than Ever.
The time-worn debate of Bloggers vs. Journalists has finally run its course. For years, traditional journalists scoffed at bloggers as pajama-wearing screamers, while bloggers have pointed to MSM (mainstream media) as secretly biased and obsolete. While the extremists in this argument have had the stage shouting at each other loudly (and it continues to this day), what has happened quietly in the background has received less attention: Mainstream media reporters have started blogging in droves, while larger blog operations have hired seasoned reporters and focused on doing traditional journalism.
How indistinguishable are large independent blogs and traditional media sites? Take the following quiz:
1. Who won a recent Polk Award for investigative journalism, a blogger or MSM reporter?
2. Which big New York-based website has four editors and four reporters, and is looking to hire two more reporters — a blog or traditional media outlet?
3. Which site hired a young blogger fresh out of college? Blog or MSM site?
4. Which site in Silicon Valley edits 80% of stories before being published online? Blog or MSM site?Answers: 1. Josh Marshall, Talkingpointsmemo blogger;
2. Gawker blog;
3. NYTimes.com, hiring TVNewser’s Brian Stelter;
4. GigaOm blog. ..."I think the argument about bloggers vs. journalists has been over for years. We've all co-existed just fine for a while now, and the truth is, the distinction is less relevant every day. There are thousands of journalists who now blog, and there are lots of bloggers who are trained journalists. Josh Marshall winning a Polk Award is a sign that the distinctions are becoming less relevant. I don't think readers care whether what they're reading is in a blog or not. What they care about is whether they trust the source of that information, whether it's a mainstream site or a pure blog." — Jim Brady, executive editor of Washingtonpost.com
Great quote from Brady. It's a point Dan Gillmor, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis and I (and others) have been making for years, and it's good to see it becoming a widespread reality.
February 28, 2008 at 03:04 PM in Citizen media, Media, New media, Weblogs | Permalink
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Josh Marshall wins Polk Award
Somehow I missed this bit of news from last week, but the NY Times catches us up today: Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize.
Of the many landmarks along a journalist’s career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down. Last week, Joshua Micah Marshall achieved both.
On Tuesday, it was announced that he had won a George Polk Award for legal reporting for coverage of the firing of eight United States attorneys, critics charged under political circumstances. The “tenacious investigative reporting sparked interest by the traditional news media and led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,” the citation read. ...
Marshall does not belong to any traditional news organization. Instead, he is creating his own. His Web site, Talking Points Memo (www.talkingpointsmemo.com), is the first Internet-only news operation to receive the Polk (though in 2003, an award for Internet reporting was given to the Center for Public Integrity), and certainly one of the most influential political blogs in the country. ...
For those not in the biz, the Polk Award is one of the most prestigious awards in all of journalism.
Congrats, Josh, well deserved.
February 25, 2008 at 12:16 AM in Citizen media, New media | Permalink
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Digital Democracy coming to Pittsburgh next month
Catching up on upcoming events:
Digital Democracy is a special event happening in Pittsburgh on March 15. The conference will explore how the digital revolution -- including blogs, online video, websites and social media -- is changing traditional news media coverage and citizens' access to the political process.
Speakers include:
• New York Times Online Politics Editor Kate Phillips, who writes for and edits The Caucus, The New York Times politics news blog.
• Newsbusters.org Executive Editor Matthew Sheffield
• MediaMatters.org Senior Fellow & Director of Special Projects Paul Waldman
• Hearst-Argyle Director of Digital Media Content Jacques Natz
• J-Lab Executive Director Jan Schaffer
• Media Bloggers Association President Robert Cox
February 16, 2008 at 10:55 PM in Citizen media, New media, Social-media | Permalink
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CNN launches iReport
MyDD: CNN launches iReport.
This week CNN launched iReport, a video sharing citizen journalism site where users have a chance to upload reports which might be picked up and used on-air at CNN. The launch builds on previous experiments by CNN to incorporate citizen journalism into its reporting. The site is technically in beta now, and is slated for launch in March. I should also mention that CNN is hardly the first network to stumble across the idea of citizen journalism: The Real News, a non-profit progressive TV news show, has been supporting citizen journalism through their community website The Real News Junkies for several months now, with a significantly lower budget.
iReport is, as might be expected, far from perfect. TechCrunch has already taken it to task for failing to compensate contributors and for relatively lackluster content. ...
February 16, 2008 at 09:45 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Open media publishing: One new option
I just posted an entry at PBS's IdeaLab on the release of a new version of Plumi, an open media publishing platform from our friends down under at EngageMedia.
February 14, 2008 at 01:13 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Toward a Community Media Toolset
On PBS's IdeaLab blog, I just posted a new entry proposing the development of a set of social media tools that would help publishers, editors and developers at community media/citizen media sites enable a much richer degree of participation.
February 10, 2008 at 10:02 PM in Citizen media, Social-media | Permalink
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Three cover political races as MTV citizen journalists
Three Indiana University students are covering political races as MTV citizen journalists, part of Street Team '08.
February 9, 2008 at 01:31 AM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Facebook: The rival to newswire services everywhere?
NEXT Innovation Tools & Trends: Facebook: The rival to newswire services everywhere?
Watching the news and CNN had a piece on the tornado that went through Tennessee [Tuesday] night. The anchorwoman then introduced some pictures from “Facebook” (entertainingly, she said it in exactly the same way my grandmother used to say the word “Internet” — like she was experimenting with a whole new mysterious language.) She recounted how students from Union University in Jackson had been uploading pictures of their experience of being in the storm to their Facebook group — and then showed a few pictures that had been uploaded. ...
Do people uploading images to their Facebook network realize that, while they retain ownership of their content, they are also allowing Facebook to use the content, too? In whatever way it sees fit. Which could be, say, to sell it to media outlets looking for on-the-scene, first-hand accounts of news events.
Related, from Citizen Sugar: CNN Uses Blogs and Facebook to Cover Tornadoes.
This morning, while covering the devastation caused by the tornadoes that ripped through the mid-south, CNN relied on reporting from some very personal sources: Facebook and blogs. Using pictures of upturned cars posted on local Facebook pages and reading a posting from the blog Sassy Southerner to report the story, CNN pulled together a very eyewitness account, using no formal reportage.
February 8, 2008 at 01:29 AM in Citizen media, Media, Social networks | Permalink
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Explore new videos at Rising Voices
IdeaLab blog: Come Explore New Videos at Rising Voices, which trains participants in underrepresented communities on how to use the tools of citizens' media.
February 3, 2008 at 12:33 AM in Citizen media, Video | Permalink
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The UpTake's pitch for citizen journalists
The UpTake, an emerging citizen-fueled news gathering organization, is focused on providing alternative coverage of the 2008 political campaign. The UpTake provided live and recorded coverage of Iowa and New Hampshire using Internet video.
Now they're looking for citizen-journalists to cover the lead-up to Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, when Democrats will be holding primaries or caucuses in 22 states and Republicans in 21.
Says founding editor Noah Kunin: "We are particularly interested in stories that are falling off the radar of the big media - compelling local stories, interesting viewpoints, strong personalities.
"If you are a talented, entrepreneurial, independent, critically thinking videographer or journalist who can work with a team of producers editors and other correspondents (including Chuck Olsen of Blogumentary) to help reinvent American media -- please drop us a line with a pointer to your reel, your video blog, your best YouTube/Blip.tv clips, or any other reason you would like to be involved.
"The UpTake is volunteer-run though many of our journalists are paid once distribution is achieved with one of our partners. The UpTake will be shooting stories and webcasting live in as many primary states as we can - our content is also distributed by the Veracifier network, nationally known for Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo TV.
You bring the talent, we'll bring the traffic and PR. Contact Noah Kunin at noah.kunin@theuptake.org or at 612.910.0805 for details.
January 21, 2008 at 08:31 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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Citizens' media in the non-Western world
From David Sasaki at the IdeaLab blog: An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media.
Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership.
The first guide, An Introduction to Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages. ...
This first edition of An Introduction to Citizen Media is available in English, Spanish, and Bengali. Future editions will also be available in Swahili, Malagasy, and Aymara.
While there are already several excellent introductions to the principles of citizen media, they tend to overwhelmingly focus on the surge of citizen media initiatives in North America and Western Europe. This guide, on the other hand, hopes to show readers in North America and Western Europe that some of the most exciting and innovative developments related to citizen media are taking place in the non-Western world.
Download An Introduction to Citizen Media in
English
'সিটিজেন মিডিয়ার পরিচিতি' ডাউনলোড করুন
January 20, 2008 at 10:53 PM in Citizen media | Permalink
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