Web 2.0 Expo: Data on Participatory Journalism

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"Bill Tancer from Hitwise and Dafe Sifry from Technorati are on stage now, discussing data about the participatory web. The first slide from Bill shows a 668% growth in web 2.0 over the last year, based on the top participatory sites combined (in US), like Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. The next chart is similar, showing just visits to Wikipedia. It outnumbers visits to 1.0 encyclopedia website Encarta over 3400 to 1. The photo category is showing particularly big growth, in terms of web 2.0 sites over web 1.0 sites (flickr vs ofoto for example)."


DC Title : Web 2.0 Expo: Data on Participatory Journalism
DC Creator : Richard Mc Manus
DC Subject : participatory journalism, web 2.0, blogs, alternative websites, search engines, bloggers, statistics
DC Description : presents a conference about Web 2.0 Expo, personalities talks about the emergence of alternative websites (You Tube, Wikipedia), search engines (Google, Yahoo), the growth of blogs and behaviour of bloggers with statistics.
DC Publisher : Red Write Web
DC Contributor : /
DC Date : April 17, 2007
DC Type : article
DC Format : html
DC Identifier : http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_expo_data.php
DC Source : /
DC Language : English
DC Relation : /
DC Coverage : World
DC Rights : © 2003-2008 ReadWriteWeb

‘Participatory journalism' making news, breaking barriers

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"Participatory journalism is here to stay, is the consensus among online journalism experts who spoke on a panel on grassroots journalism at the Online New Association conference in New York on Saturday.
In a rapidly shifting climate in which online news sites incorporate blogs, phlogs, wikis, Web casts, podcasts, forums and other interactive tools to increase their readership, the concern isn’t so much about whether participatory journalism is a lasting trend, so much as how to use it effectively, the experts acknowledged."


DC Title : ‘Participatory journalism' making news, breaking barriers
DC Creator : ANDRADE Kara
DC Subject : participatory journalism / blogs / wikis / credibility
DC Description : presents participatory journalism with its qualities and faults and the consequences of this new power for Internet users.
DC Publisher : ONA Convention Online Staff
DC Contributor :
DC Date : October 29, 2005
DC Type : Text
DC Format : html
DC Identifier : http://journalist.org/2005conference/archives/000371.php
DC Source :
DC Language : English
DC Relation :
DC Coverage : World
DC Rights : Online News Association

How bloggers can become good journalists

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"Blogs, podcasts and e-newsletters make it easy for anyone to be a journalist. But just as the debut of desktop publishing led to some very ugly documents, these newer tools are spawning some very sloppy journalism, which does no good for the reputation of participatory media. Here are some tips on how good journalists do useful work"

DC Title : How bloggers can become good journalists
DC Creator : CRITCHLEY Spencer
DC Subject : blogger, participatory journalism, journalist, advice, amateurs, bloggers, amateur journalism
DC Description : presents advice in ten points for bloggers, who want to become good journalists, because are amators with participatory journalism and not journalists.
DC Publisher : Our Media
DC Contributor :
DC Date :
DC Type : Text
DC Format : html
DC Identifier : http://ourmedia.org/node/240349
DC Source :
DC Language : English
DC Relation : http://ourmedia.org/node/147127
DC Coverage : World
DC Rights : Outhink Media and Drupal