Citizen Journalism

WELL, IT'S ABOUT TIME!After having (and having friends who have had) their submissions to DIGG in particular "buried" by people with their own agenda, a site that lets citizen journalists post the NEWS without being edited, buried, deleted, or otherwise tampered with. After years of gritting my teeth as the "Mainstream" Media slants, distorts, amplifies or ignores news as they so choose, a News Site with NO editorial content control (unless the story is not factual). News generated by Citizen...Read Full Story

It's rare, but not unheard of, that I'll publish someone's Press Release. Every time I do, there's a reason for it.I am a HUGE fan of Neaju.com and what they are trying to accomplish. I plan a major post at a later date about how vital Citizen Journalism is in America today, and Neaju.com is the only TRUE Citizen Journalism site on the internet in that it imposes NO EDITORIAL CONTROL over ther stories/videos/photos submitted to it (beyond fact checking and banning pornography) A Member...Read Full Story

Those interested in the Citizen Journalism are aware of the success of the site OhMyNews out of South Korea, that is widely credited with influencing the outcome of South Korean presidential elections in 2002. Since we thought we had a "Free Press" in the United States, Blogging and Forums are big here.But in Frisco, Texas; Citizen Journalism complements of Neaju.com seems to be slowly catching on because of the major local elections being held on May 10, 2008. But recently, someone running...Read Full Story

We have written before about the efforts by Hamas’ representative in England to shut down the voice of Harry’s Place, this time a right wing extremist who is taking a stab at that same blog: Harry’s place has this to say: Harry’s Place may be removed (or rather have it’s DNS disabled) after a ‘complaint’ to the company that our domain name is registered with. We assume after threats were made on the weekend that this ‘complaint’ originates from Jenna Delich or her supporters. Though we have...Read Full Story

The planned conservative  Tea Party protests against Obama economic policies  to be staged next week are proof-positive of the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern American conservative movement. Many commentators are claiming that the triumvirate policy foundations of the conservative movement - traditional social values, unregulated capitalist markets,  and hawkish foreign policy - have been tried and found wanting in this modern world.  Conservatives are in search of a new ideal,  have...Read Full Story

There is much of value in the current  technological era - infinite global connectivity, undreamed of data access, revolutionary channels of communication, real time collaboration breaking down intellectual property borders, virtual worlds inducing societal experimentation, user added information creating multiple author content, and more.  This video, Did you know, is worthy of review as a testament to the speed and the nature of the fundamental change society is experiencing (hat tip to Tom...Read Full Story

A contentious issue around net neutrality and citizen journalism is buzzing in the cyberactivism world. There is emerging evidence that some US blog web hosts are systematically denying services to international bloggers living in and/or writing with a dissident voice against regimes such as Iran, Belarus, Zimbabwe and other sanctioned states. The US Web hosts are using government provisions that were never intended for this application, namely  Office of Foreign Assets Control (”OFAC”) rules...Read Full Story

On Tuesday, Carl Hiaasen came to Lynn as part of the Dively Frontiers in Globalization Lecture Series. I had the opportunity to interview him in the studio. Last time I mentioned that I was formulating questions to ask him. Well, I sorted my question and put them onto note cards with the Lynn seal on the reverse side. On Tuesday morning I went to Hiaasen’s lecture in the theater. It was very informative and it helped me to establish which questions I wanted to ask, and which ones I should...Read Full Story

(Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN: One of the things that most of these sites we talked about have in common is that they kind of originated out of college campuses or, at the least, they were popularized there. LinkedIn, of course, was more developed out of Palo Alto and the Silicon Valley area, but MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook all really grew out of college just as before them, Napster was a big college phenomenon. You’re on campus, Sree. I hate to say it, but what are the kids buzzing...Read Full Story

I visited  Tom Barnett’s site - described by others as “… a consultant to the Pentagon and private corporation” - this morning, and followed the link to Michael Fullilove’s - an Australian Barnett equivalent  as a descriptor in brevity -  review of  Barnett’s new book, Great Powers: America and the world after Bush,  in the Washington Post. From my perspective, as an English-born-naturalized-Australian-long term-US-resident,   I think that much of Fullilove’s negativity in his  review is, in...Read Full Story