The Archives
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09.11.08The Hamster WheelIt seems the pointless hamster wheel of journalists vs. bloggers is spinning up again along with the Large Hadron Collider. This one though, is more likely to produce a black hole than the LHC as the two camps disappear up their own collective orifices. Why, oh why, I ask, do the "professional journalists" in their ivory towers (and no few bloggers down in the muck) persist with the false dichotomy that they are on opposing sides? This time, it's (very) old school journalist and former editor of the Australian, Mark Day, laying his polished Oxford into the baggy-jean wearing backside of ...
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07.28.08Jay Rosen explains itWhile this video is particularly apropos to the discussion that's been conducted at least in part here the past couple of weeks, it's relevance extends to online communities of any sort - inside or outside the wall. Without further ado, here's NYU's Jay Rosen moderating the workshop, Using Social Networking in Business Reporting, at the 2008 SABEW Conference. And for those that missed it, here he is again defining citizen journalism. Got it? Hat tip to Stilgherrian for the SABEW link.
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07.23.08Non, je ne regrette rienLike my friend, Stilgherrian, I am pretty excited that educator and journalist, Francis Pisani has chosen to highlight our analysis of the Future of Media Summit in his piece Blogalaxie/4: “futur des médias” et “rumeurs”, for his Le Monde blog, Transnets: Ils ont parlé de la “tension artificielle” blogueurs-journalistes qui, selon Stephen Collins occupe trop de place (voir ce qu’en ont écrit Narvic et Éliane Fiolet sur Transnets). J’ai bien aimé cette phrase du blogueur australien Stilgherrian : “Ce qui est fatiguant dans cette fausse dichotomie c’est qu’elle compare les idéaux les plus élevés du journalisme et le degré le plus bas ...
