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Are we exploiting the people?
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Daniel Massey.
A question from the politics discussion: We talk about citizen journalism. But how does a citizen benfit? “I get nervous when we talk of crowd sourcing,” said a participant. “That what we’re talking about is crowd harvesting. We have less money, we’re getting our budgets cut. Here’s free labor. It’s a cynic’s view, but I […]
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Politics–if you listen, stories will bubble up
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Daniel Massey.
[audio:http://newsinnovation.com/audio/local_afternoon.mp3] Politics: Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake; Micah Sifry of Tech President; Mike Krempasky of Redstate. Moderator: Micah Sifry Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake: “What happened with the Libby trial is we had had so many readers interested in the case, stacks of court files, people saying conflicting things. We developed a group of people obsessed with […]
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The people formerly known as the audience
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Daniel Massey.
Participants: Dan Pacheco, Northwest Voice, John Wilpers, Boston Now; Jarah Euston, Fresno Famous; Dan Barkin, Raleigh News and Observer Moderator: David Cohn The panelists talked of their development of user-generated content on the local level, involving those who Barkin called “people formerly known as the audience.”
