Today, Everyone's a Reporter.
A swarm of prolific nonprofessionals post up-to-the-minute stories and
pictures of breaking news from their laptops, and the pros often turn
to indie operators for help. Here's the lowdown on the new proletariat
press. By Lucas Graves of Wired magazine.
For Victims, News About Home Can Come From Strangers Online.
As people search the Internet for information about a home feared
destroyed, many are using Google Earth to scour satellite photos. By
Katie Hafner of The New York Times.
A Heightened Demand for Online Video.
In the days after Hurricane Katrina landed on the Gulf Coast, the
number of visitors watching online video at CNN's Web site surged to
record highs. By Alex Mindlin of The New York Times.
CBS News counters bloggers with 'nonbudsman' After a controversial run-in with bloggers last year that helped sink
"60 Minutes Wednesday," CBS has hired a "nonbudsman" to write a blog
that will go behind the scenes at the news division. From Reuters via C|Net.
How-To Community Journalism.
J-Lab has a great new site (J-Learning) about community journalism. The
Institute for Interactive Journalism is a center of the Philip Merrill
College of Journalism, University of Maryland. From J-Log.
Reflection after returning home... In
many ways the impact of Katrina is just starting to hit. Maybe it is
the guilt of returning to a comfortable life while the agony we left
behind continues. There are regrets: Todd suggested rolling out of
town, we should have loaded the RV up with people to get them out of
the I-10 staging area, he was right... From Nashville TV newsman Neil Orne's Blog.
Report: Government secrecy expands, grows more costly WASHINGTON
- The government is withholding more information than ever from the
public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year, federal
agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets for each
$1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog groups
reported Saturday. From AP via Knoxville News Sentinel.
Gaidheil is eile: "shuas an sin am bad-eigin" CHAN eil an suidheachadh a' còrdadh fiùs ri muinntir a' mhinisteir fhèin anns an sgìre aige fhèin ann an Sealltainn. By Murchadh MacLeòid in The Scotsman.
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and, yes, I may actually subscribe to too many RSS feeds. I don't
even "Wendy and I picked out a ketubah earlier this summer. Ketubah shopping
was a fascinating experience for me; I'd never set foot in a judaica
store before, and I'd joked to Wendy that the last Asian guy who was in
there was probably delivering Chinese food..."
