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WWNVD: Is It Journalism? Does it Pretend to Be?Newsvine may have an answer to the question, Is YourHub — operated by the Rocky Mountain News — giving people a way to disguise advertising as journalism? It's a serious issue, because how the site answers the question will help determine its future credibility.
So what is "Newsworthy"?Exactly how are we being fed our news, and is it the news we should be getting? It seems that there is a growing restlessness among readers to engage in both the reporting of the news and choosing what news is important and relevant to them.
Global Voices Online, co-founded by Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman, grew out of an international bloggers' meeting held at Harvard in December 2004.At a time when the international English-language media ignores many things that are important to large numbers of the world
Read, seed, and write. That's the briefest description of how I use Newsvine. Here's what that means for me:
I use Google Alerts for heads up on news of my priority focus subject matter. I can then seed as appropriate.
One of my goals, using Newsvine, is to inform people on subject matter important to me. When reading, seeding, and writing my priority focus is:
Cory Doctorow: Technology, fiction and the Dark NetDavid Weinberger, blogging: But the world in which technology exists is not neutral. So, we have to think about whether what we're building is likely to make the world better or worse.
The Blog Bubble?Dan Gillmor, blogging: If Time Warner and other big-media companies start a bunch of sucky blogs, they won't get anywhere. If they buy a bunch of great blogs and turn them into sucky ones, ditto.
Bloggers vs. Journalists is OverJay Rosen, blogging: "I have been an observer and critic of the American press for 19 years. In that stretch there has never been a time so unsettled. More is up for grabs than has ever been up for grabs since I started my watch."
Dick Cheney Did Not Make a Mistake By Not Telling the Press He Shot a GuyJay Rosen, blogging: Among the angry, amused and jaded reactions to Dick Cheney's methods for informing the nation about his hunting accident, the views of Marlin Fitzwater were of special interest to me. Fitzwater—former press secretary to both Ronald Reagan and George H.W.
Anonymity, Attacks and CredibilityDan Gillmor, blogging: Were the attacks libelous? Or merely insulting? I can't say, because I haven't seen what prompted this action.
Dan Gillmor Finds His Center"Gillmor hasn't given up on citizen media, and he hasn't given up one iota on his belief that average folks can expand, fact-check and report on events in their neighborhood and beyond. Far from it. Instead, he is the founder and director of...
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