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Ed Webb

PressThink: The Pros Gonna Blog You Under the Table - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 20 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Perhaps the hardest part is you actually have to be interested in what other people are saying
  • I say a majority of the blogging is going to continue to be done by the traditional underwear types who have the passion and irreverance the pros seem to lack.
Ed Webb

Voice from the grave: Sri Lankan journalist's final editorial | Comment is free | The G... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 23 Mar 09 - Cached
  • When finally I am killed, it will be the government that kills me.
  • This is an edited version of an article published in the Sunday Leader editorial column on 11 January. Its author, who co-founded the paper in 1994, was killed three days earlier by unidentified gunmen as he drove to work. He is believed to have written the editorial just days before his death.
Ed Webb

Global Voices Gathers Information From Citizens All Over the Globe - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • “Our job is to curate the conversation that is happening all over the Internet with people who really understand what is going on,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Tokyo bureau chief for CNN who founded Global Voices with Ethan Zuckerman, a technologist and Africa expert, while they were fellows at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “We amplify, contextualize and translate what these conversations are and why they are relevant.”
  • “We don’t parachute in. We are there all the time. “
  • Mr. Sigal said that having editors work with volunteer bloggers brought traditional journalistic values to the operation, like checking facts and sources. “But it is less about a finished story and more about a conversation,” he said. “When we build a story, we include links back to the original sources, so you can follow the story as far down as you want to. We want you to leave our site and go find the original, find more.”
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  • “It turns out that it is much more critical than they had imagined because the other international news sources are being dismantled.”
  • 18-hour days for Ms. Hussaini, whose work is now followed closely on the site and on Twitter by journalists from traditional media organizations, including Andy Carvin of NPR, who has been regularly curating and publishing posts on Twitter, creating a news wire about the unrest in the region for weeks.
  • “The citizen media scene is small in Libya,” Ms. Hussaini said. “We find it very difficult to find voices here and in other places where there is a lot of censorship and a lot of fear from the regime. Bloggers being arrested is a fact of life in some countries.”
  • Global Voices Advocacy is run by Sami Ben Gharbia, a highly respected blogger who is a founder of Nawaat, a blog about Tunisia, and an activist who until recently lived in exile from Tunisia for 13 years.
  • “People are not always interested in knowing what is happening in Yemen,” he said. “We have been waiting for people to pay attention to this corner of the world for a long time, and now we are ready to tell their stories.”
Ed Webb

Ian Bogost - Beyond Blogs - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • I wish these were the sorts of questions so-called digital humanists considered, rather than figuring out how to pay homage to the latest received web app or to build new tools to do the same old work. But as I recently argued, a real digital humanism isn't one that's digital, but one that's concerned with the present and the future. A part of that concern involves considering the way we want to interact with one another and the world as scholars, and to intervene in that process by making it happen. Such a question is far more interesting and productive than debating the relative merits of blogs or online journals, acts that amount to celebrations of how little has really changed.
  • Perhaps a blog isn't a great tool for (philosophical; videogame) discussion or even for knowledge retention, etc... but a whole *blogosphere*...? If individuals (and individual memory in particular) are included within the scope of "the blogosphere" then surely someone remembers the "important" posts, like you seemed to be asking for...?
Ed Webb

Anatomy of a Twitter Screw-up: My Own - Jay Rosen: Public Notebook - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Ed Webb on 16 Mar 11
     
    Read and learn the many lessons offered here.
gweyman

Muez i Diin Street » Blog Archive » Gay Girl in Damascus debacle: Lessons for... - 0 views

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  • gweyman on 17 Jun 11
     
    Interested to see what people think of these ideas.
gweyman

Introducing #MuckReads: A Social Way to Share the Best Accountability Reporting - ProPu... - 0 views

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shared by gweyman on 17 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • gweyman on 17 Jun 11
     
    I support this idea, but the big problem here is transparency. On what criteria are Propublica going to select what is good enough for the public #MuckReads page? Do they give users clear guidelines? Will they publish everything they receive on this tag/ email so it becomes clear what they are selecting and what they are not? Can they let users help sort the feed to produce their own filter?
Ed Webb

In defence of anonymity, despite 'Gay girl in Damascus' | Dan Gillmor | Comment is free... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 19 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Social media is a minefield for the unwary. Some things demand vetting if not outright verification, because the risk is to be an utter dupe. The BBC has especially sound practices in this regard, but it, too, was fooled.It's worth noting that traditional and new media organisations were instrumental in unmasking the falsity of the "gay girl" blog. Among others, National Public Radio's Andy Carvin asked his Twitter audience for help, and got plenty, while the Washington Post did its own digging into the matter; meanwhile, the Electronic Intifada website pieced together some evidence as well – and all kinds of people with no media affiliations contributed what they knew, learned or surmised.
  • Sounding real is not the same as being real. The fake Amina's blog was especially well done, with details that sounded authentic even to native Syrians. Its unmasked author said he was telling larger truths, but we have a name for this technique: fiction.
  • pseudonym. This is a much-used method online – not revealing one's own name but having a consistent identifier. It's one step away from outright anonymity, where there is no accountability whatever
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  • It is up to us to cultivate an abiding distrust for speech when the speaker refuses to stand behind his or her own words – that is, by using one's own name.
  • it is essential to preserve anonymity (in special circumstances), even if we discourage it, while simultaneously improving trust.
  • What we should all fear is what too many in power want to see: the end of anonymity entirely. Governments, in particular, absolutely loathe the idea that people can speak without being identified. It will always be possible to create and disseminate anonymous speech with adept use of technology, but governments and their corporate handmaidens are working hard to make it much more difficult – and I fear there will soon be widespread laws disallowing anonymous speech, even in America. We should not allow them to succeed.
Ed Webb

Jerusalem Post Apologizes For 'Inappropriate' Response To Norway Massacre | ThinkProgress - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • The paper’s apology noted that the Islamophobic views expressed in Breivik’s manifesto ran eerily close to the “Nazis’ attitude toward Jews.”
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      Ed Webb on 05 Aug 11
       
      Light slowly dawning? We can hope.
Ed Webb

Blogging in the Middle East: Not Necessarily Journalistic : CJR - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • “This a country where barbers used to do the job of doctors,” says Abdelmonem Said, head of Egypt’s al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, who writes a newspaper column but does not consider himself a journalist. “We should not refer to [bloggers] as journalists unless they are qualified to perform the job of a journalist. Defending an activist in the name of journalism further complicates an already complicated situation.” Professionalism is the best defense for Arab and Iranian journalists; facts their ultimate ally. If everything written on the Web is equal, governments have an excuse to crack down on it all. And if journalist rights groups throw in their lot with political activists, it will be hard to make a case that jailed Iranian and Arab journalists shouldn’t be tried right alongside “cyberdissidents” advocating revolution and militants who throw bombs.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 19 Aug 09
       
      Greater professionalism would be very good to see in the region, but it is not fostered by the current political and economic power structures and 'flexible' legal systems
Ed Webb

Murdoch taking stake in Alwaleed biz - Rapid TV News - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 03 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Rupert Murdoch is reported to be taking an investment position in Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s music and films business, Rotana Media. The Wall Street Journal is saying that Murdoch is in talks to take a 20% stake in Rotana. The report seems well-founded, but it is not the first time that these two media giants have talked about mutual co-operation.
Ed Webb

Reporting an Event with CoverItLive | CoPress - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • It was interesting to know that I was some people’s only source for the news.
  • Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09
     
    Any aspiring journalists or Dickinsonian staffers might want to check this out
Ed Webb

Is writing for the rich? - THE WEEK - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 26 Mar 09
     
    See Bruce Sterling's brief comment here: http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/03/death-of-journa.html
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