From the counterintuitive files, the Project for Excellence in Journalism came out with its fifth annual look at the media, and it's a doozy of a report.

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The news that MSNBC has bought Newsvine is a very big deal in the new media world. MSNBC.com has done a lot of excellent online journalism over the years, and pulling Newsvine under its wing make perfect sense.

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Citizen media in New Zealand

New Zealand now has its very own citizen media website at www.infonews.co.nz.

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There has to be some secret sauce to creating a successful blog. The book by Ted Demopoulos might just include the recipie. Even if you don't end up getting the book, you can at least learn from some of the most successful bloggers out there.

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We're continually being told the Internet empowers the individual.

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Two years ago, the inspiration for creating a Web site for news junkies hit two men with vastly different ambitions. One hoped to make boat-loads of money.

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In 1993, computer scientist Vernor Vinge published an essay titled "The Coming Technological Singularity." It detailed a time, in the relatively near future, when the exponential growth of computing power and disparate technologies would coalesce, leading to a single moment o …

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there is danger in continuing to separate journalism by medium — and to promote one medium separately.

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Yesterday marked the beginning of this year's Blog Business Summit in Seattle and the AListReview author Diane Ensey is there to cover it. Today the panalist gave some insights into the importance of transparency in blogging, commercial blogging in particular.

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"What are some other databases that citizen journalists can explore alongside mainstream reporters?"

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When the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001, the web changed with it.

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I just wish the site had an English version so I could understand the reporting. From the article: 11-minute video interview with Michael Weiss, co-founder and CEO of Scoop, Israel's first citizen media news site.

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-- When the history of the online media revolution is written, 2006 should merit special mention as a turning point for the blogosphere. This is the year, for better or for worse, when bloggers earned their first official media stripes.

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Bookends

[originally blogged December 11, 2005]

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"Americans are always much more interesting than their political parties or ideological labels, and for a few months there it was possible for readers and writers alike to feel the unfamiliar slap of collisions with worlds they'd previously sealed off from themselves.

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As Pakistan gets ready for U.S. President Bush's visit amid mounting protest, South Asia Editor Neha Viswanathan reports that blogspot.com based blogs have been blocked by most Pakistani ISP's.

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International Bloggers Community reports blackout: All weblogs on blogspot.com are not accessible from Pakistan to coincide with US President George Bush visit to the region, according to reports earlier today.

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Pre-launch opinion: Why Newsvine will dominate

Dan Bricklin, concluding in When The Long Tail Wags The Dog:In areas where results are often customized to people or situations and that can't be addressed directly in advance, such as when there is a high value to most users of at least some user-generated material, "open" gener

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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.

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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.

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Deep in the comments: "Claiming that any action of the Mainland government on the networks and the machines located in Mainland China is a strict internal affair belonging only to the Chinese people has seriously overlooked the true meaning of the term "internet.""

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So you're a citizen journalist? Prove it!

How I practice citizen journalism on Newsvine.

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Seeding: Case example, Global Voices Online

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

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Read, seed, and write

Read, seed, and write. That's the briefest description of how I use Newsvine. Here's what that means for me:

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Reading for Seeds: Google Alerts

I use Google Alerts for heads up on news of my priority focus subject matter. I can then seed as appropriate.

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