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

The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism

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"Citizen journalism." It's one of the hottest buzzwords in the news business these days. Many news executives are probably thinking about implementing some sort of citizen-journalism initiative; a small but growing number have already done so. But there's plenty of confusion about citizen journalism. What exactly is it? Is this something that's going to be essential to the future prosperity of news companies?"



DC Title : The 11 Layers of Citizen journalism
DC Creator : OUTING Steve
DC Subject : new media, web, blogs, amateur journalism, layers, resource guide, editors
DC Description : define citizen journalism in 11 points. There are information for editors and journalists for to understand the concept of citizen journalism.
DC Publisher : Poynter
DC Contributor :
DC Date : 2005 - 06 - 15
DC Type : Text
DC Format : html
DC Identifier : http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83126
DC Source :
DC Language : English
DC Relation : http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=79670
DC Coverage : World
DC Rights : The Poynter Institute

Citizen journalism vs. professional journalism

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"Citizen journalism, a concept at which mainstream news organizations used to turn up their nose, has been documented and praised enough that they are now paying attention. But do professional journalists and news organizations really have anything to be worried about?"


DC Title : Citizen journalism vs. professional journalism
DC Creator : BURKE, John
DC Subject : profesional journalism / amateur journalism / new media / journalists
DC Description : Presents the amator journalist, his or her fonction and the principles of the journalism (objectivity, accuracy, corroboration , transparency, editorial oversight).
DC Publisher : The Editors Weblog
DC Contributor :
DC Date : Friday, April 28, 2006
DC Type : Text
DC Format : html
DC Identifier : http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2006/04/citizen_journalism_vs_professional_journ.php
DC Source :
DC Language : English
DC Relation : http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=100385
Poynter, The Economist (April 22 print edition, special survey on new media)
DC Coverage : World
DC Rights : World Editors Forum