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Citizen Journalism Milestone

Published 2008 April 15 CollectiveWisdom , JayRosen , campaign 2008 , disruptive innovation , networked news , news Leave a Comment

There isn’t a better account of all sides of an episode—any episode—of this “uncharted” thing Jay Rosen calls “citizen journalism.” Superlative.

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  • Diderot on Information Overload 2009 September 3
    Denis Diderot, "Encyclopédie" (1755) As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concea […]
    Stowe Boyd
  • OPENING ALERT: Macbar 2009 September 23
    Shared by joshyoung Why? Why the macaroni-shaped bowls?! With duck confit mac and cheese, things were looking so bright! And now I'm crestfallen, repelled by the kitsch. 54 Prince St., Soho Phone: 212-226-8877 Status: Open now. PR reps announce that the long delayed macaroni shaped sister to Soho scenster restaurant Delicatessen opens today on 54 Prince […]
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  • Facebook release Tornado and it’s not based on Twisted? 2009 September 12
    Image: Jay Smith To their great credit, Facebook have just open-sourced more of their core software. This time it’s Tornado, an asynchronous web server written in Python. Surely that can only mean one thing: Tornado is based on Twisted. Right? Incredibly, no. Words fail me on this one. I’ve spent some hours today trying to put my thoughts into order so I cou […]
    terry
  • Calling All Librarians 2009 September 19
    I just received a copy of Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain by Richard Brandt. I'm generally pretty bad at reading this type of book and getting a review out in a timely manner, so this time I'm going to try my best to write a review of the first chapter.However, before I get that far, I've formed an impression based on the opening analogy. […]
    Matthew Hurst
  • Zakta – a new way to organize web knowledge 2009 September 14
    After the WhizBang!Labs implosion, I worked for Intelliseek (BuzzMetrics, Neilsen) where Sundar Kadayam was the CTO. Since leaving Nielsen, Sundar has been busy working on a new idea called Zakta. The site combines the functionality of web search, wiki and social features with the goal of simplifying the discovery, extraction and maintenance of knowledge dis […]
    Matthew Hurst
  • Tornado powering this blog 2009 September 15
    This blog is now running off of Tornado on App Engine. Tornado is an open source version of the web server and tools that power FriendFeed. I'm really excited that this code was open sourced, working with this server has been a pleasure at FriendFeed and I'm looking forward to seeing how developers will use it and contribute to it. I haven't p […]
    benjamin.golub
  • Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) 2009 August 27
    For those of you interested in the study of networked data, I would like to bring your attention to the "Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN)", a workshop organized by my colleagues Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, and Arun Sundararajan. It will take place on September 25-26, 2009. From the description:The purpose of WIN is to bring together leadin […]
    Panos Ipeirotis
  • How Twitter works in theory 2009 August 15
    It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I've learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I want […]
    Kevin Marks
  • FluidDB has launched! 2009 August 25
    In case you missed it, FluidDB has (finally) launched. I wont be blogging here about FluidDB or Fluidinfo, though will continue to post personal things and of course random bits of code that seem interesting (and small) enough to warrant mention. I have yet another Twisted snippet coming up, though I’m not sure when I’ll get there. We’re all exhausted and th […]
    terry
  • The Raging Debate Over The Link Economy 2009 August 16
    Arnon Mishkin wrote a post last Thursday on paidContent called “The Fallacy Of The Link Economy” that has been generating a lot of discussion, so I figured I’d join in the free-for-all. First, let me try to reduce each person’s argument to a direct quote that best sums up his position. Arnon Mishkin: The vast majority of the value gets captured by aggregator […]
    Daniel Tunkelang