Why I Won’t Be Entering Another Knight News Challenge
an immersion into the Internet you won’t be experiencing soon David Cohn from Spot.us has asked a number of people to take today to write a blog about the Knight Foundation News Challenge. He is doing this under the...
Read moreWhy I Didn’t Win The Knight News Challenge – And Other Complaints
OK. You know what? I don’t want to appear to be a sore loser. (unfair! unfair! unfair!) OK. Now that I got that out of my system, as I said, I don’t want to appear to be a sore...
Read moreWhat is a Citizen Journalist?
Running the BBC courses on the beach at Newcastle-on-Tyne Last month, Dirck Halstead ran a provocative piece in his Digitaljouranlist.org asking whether we should abolish the term ‘Citizen Journalist’. This fired off the predictable howl-around, including a thread in...
Read moreShould News Take Place in the Public Place?
Everyone has a story to tell… The Knight Foundation has informed me that I have made it to the second round for the Knight News Challenge. My proposal is to hand out 1,000 flipcams in Newark, NJ and put...
Read morePeople Wall
3 hours on line for this I just received word from the Knight Foundation that my project, 1,000 Flipcams in Newark has made it to the final round for consideration. My idea is to give 1,000 random people who...
Read moreThe Power of a Tweet
A whole new way of thinking about the media Recently over at b-roll.net, one of my favorite sites, there was a discussion about whether Twitter was worth anything or just a flash in the internet pan. I put in...
Read more1,000 Flipcams in Newark
Bathed in the sense of the place… Let’s give 1,000 flipcams to 1,000 people in Newark, New Jersey. Let’s teach them how to shoot and cut and tell their own stories. Then, let’s create a gigantic video wall in...
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