Let us introduce you to a can of worms: Are citizen journalists and bloggers real journalists? Can they be?
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Future Journalism Project Does NYC
via Culture, MediaFoolReporting from New York on disruption and opportunity in American journalism — a short video update on who we’ve been talking to and what you can expect to see.
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Richard Branson has a new Project
via MediaFoolRichard Branson to launch iPad-only magazine. Smooth move or vanity play?
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Publishers on Publishing WikiLeaks
via Around the Web, MediaFoolWith the release of US diplomatic cables, publishers are chiming in on public interest versus national security. Here’s a rundown.
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Infographics: Mapping the Social Web
via Around the Web, MediaFoolA new map graphs the social web so that geographical landmass is equivalent to online activity.
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Citizen Journalism as Early Warning System
via Culture, MediaFoolGround Report Founder and CEO Rachel Sterne talks citizen journalism and an interesting question arises: in our evolving journalism landscape, can sites such as hers serve as early warning systems to mainstream media organizations?
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The Ethos of Open Source
via MediaFoolIn less than 20 years the peer production and transparency found in Open Source is firmly entrenced in the mainstream and is affecting much more than just software.
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Death of the Book, or Not
via MediaFool, TechnologyPaper books are dead, says Nicholas Negroponte. But it isn’t tablets and e-readers that killed them.
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Tea Partiers do the Open Source Socialist Thing
via MediaFool, Scribe GearCan code be political? If so, what does it mean that a new Tea Party site is built on Open Source software. Could their rigid opposition to all things collective be softening?
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Are Internet Users Losing Their Id?
via MediaFoolA new study suggests people are beginning to take their online reputations seriously. No need to fear. There’ll always be plenty of folly.










