Tag Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism: To Break Details or To Display Responsible Behavior?

0 comments Filed in Advice•Problogging Tagged with Advice•Citizen Journalism•Egogalaxies May 22nd, 2012

Those who have been following me online for a while know that I dislike the behavior of most probloggers and their drive to realize their own American Dream, Powered by Regurgitation and Adsense™.

In fact one of the most recent entries on iFranky deals with the topic do bloggers need an opinion on everything and long before that I condemned the term blogging by quoting John Gruber. The truth is that when it comes to certain values, I’m a really boring, old-school nostalgic fart.

In recent times my (online) ~~vendetta~~ criticism has refocused on trying to correct the poor behavior of MSM, but in a country with a rather small local tech scene, one which is inherently broken and basks in all its glory receiving more gifts from brands than publicly disclosed. While I paint a somber picture of the scene, it requires an advanced understanding of every market to know how bad the situation is. Usually the situation is much worse than what the naked eye sees. And it is in our country. Read more

The difference between traditional journalism and bloggers

2 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Blogging•Citizen Journalism•Paul Carr•Quotes•Truth August 5th, 2009

Paul Carr hits home.

And yet, I argued back, after camera phone dude helps us establish that the plane has crashed, who can we trust to tell us why it happened? While bloggers can own the first five minutes of any breaking story – a plane crash, a fire, a burglary – it’s always going to be the professional reporters who own the next five days, or five weeks. They walk the streets, work their contacts and – yes – trawl the blogosphere for eye-witness reports, and then take all of that information, analyse it, follow it up and ultimately provide an account of events that readers can trust.

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The topic of trust is where I draw a line in both my personal and management philosophy. My belief is that a team built on trust and respect is vastly more productive and efficient than the one where managers are distant supervisors and co-workers at 9-to-5 people you occasionally see in meetings. You're not striving to be everyone's pal; that's not the goal. The goal is a set of relationships where there is a mutual belief in each other's the reliability, truth, ability, and strengths.

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