links for 2006-01-22

• Poetic Rhetoric and Wikipedia (Ruminate)
  "We will always have organized news media and citizen journalism, scholarly peer review and special interest publications, but we won’t necessarily always have the Washington Post and The Daily Kos, Nature and Arts and Letters Daily."
  (tags: journalism citizen+journalism venues media mainstream+media evolution trends influence)
• Muckraking -- with other people's muck (The Globe and Mail)
  Not quite citJ, but: "The Canadian blogosphere is practically beside itself with pride at its newfound effectiveness. It got the story onto the national agenda; it just remains to be seen whether it can swing votes at the ballot box."
  (tags: Canada blogs influence mainstream+media government exposure good+example politics publishing trends)
• Jan 26: Slinging Beer for a Good Cause (Cleveland, OH region)
  "To raise funds to support Meet the Bloggers, the first of its kind nonpartisan citizen journalism project right here in Cleveland that offers in-depth exposure of political candidates and community issues."
  (tags: Cleveland events citizen+journalism blogs podcasting politics economics nonprofits community venues)
• Meet the Bloggers
  Citizen journalism venture focusing on community issues and politics in the Cleveland, OH region. Blog and podcast. Pretty cool!
  (tags: Cleveland citizen+journalism community politics podcasting blogs venues)
• Citizen Journalist Content - Who Owns It? (OhmyNews International)
  Pretty good overview of the murky content rights issues for several popular citizen journalism venues, including MSNBC, Digg, Newsvine (still in beta), Gather, and OhMyNews.
  (tags: content+rights venues citizen+journalism problems analysis)

Comments

[Jill]

Thanks for linking to the Meet the Bloggers event and the forum itself. It is truly unique and exciting.

[Lori Kozey]

Thanks for the mention, Amy. Exciting things are happening here in Cleveland!