he citizen journalists of SMCLA met face to face with a panel of professional journalists this week at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica to discuss “Citizen Journalism: How Social Media Effects How We Report and Consume News“.
It's great to see so much discussion about the importance of accuracy and verification.
I've started another aggregation of my social activity at ksablan.mp. This one is powered by chi.mp. Things I like immediately:
I really like this presentation of a site's contributors: mug, name, blog, twitter location. You'll need to click to see how this actually looks. Style was lost in translation.
Trae is an Engineer, Lover, Amateur Cyclist, and Social Titan (well at least a Demigod) from Texas.
And his WordPress-powered site is a good example of a lifestream.
I also have a little problem with Rubel's choice of "Lifestream" for his new format. Looking at his Posterous site, I see it more as a short format blog (ie tumblelog -esque) than a true lifestream.
Trae Blain is right
Dear Bill Keller,
You’ve got to be kidding me.
I had hope. I’ve been to the new Times newsroom, I’ve seen your awesome web infographics, I’ve talked with your developers, I’ve watched videos of your futurism department. There are many, many, smart people working for you.
When I asked one of your employees, why he had given up a well-paying job to come work for you he told me “…when the Times calls, you answer.”
I was emboldened when I read your byline from Iran. You, a manager, reported from the heart of what continues to be the world’s biggest story.
You sir, are in control of one of the finest journalism producing institutions in the world. Yet, people like you are pissing it away.
What better way to resurrect this Posterous space than with this scathing letter from CoPress' Joey Baker to the executive editor of the New York Times, blaming him for "pissing it away."
