Month: January 2005

Definition of heroism: the millions of Iraqi citizens who, at the risk of death, went to the polls today.

Jay Rosen collected, in three easy blog posts, the collective thoughts post-web-cred of many of the participants and company.  As usual from Prof. Rosen, quite an accomplishment and enormously helpful.

Calling it like we see it.

“The revolution is in the mini-disk,” says Daoud Kuttab.  Fresh after web-cred, we’ve got the enormous pleasure of Kuttab, a Palenstinian journalist and founder of Ammannet (Jordan), as our Berkman luncheon series speaker today.  He is talking about running a web- and terrestrial radio operation from Jordan.  It’s an extraordinary story.  His news operation covers … Read more

ZDNet’s David Berlind has a whole series of excellent posts inspired by what he thought about during the web-cred conference.  Here, here, here, here.  Plus a few photos on flickr. He points to one shortcoming (of many, no doubt): “In hindsight, I realized that the conference may not have spent a sufficient amount of time … Read more

There’s trouble brewing in the DRM world, as many of the big DRM offerings for music and other forms of digital content are not, on various levels, interoperable with one another.  The Coral Consortium is making a CE DRM play, along one axis, to combine the efforts of several leading providers and to offer an … Read more

1.0 What have we learned at the Blogging, Journalism and Credibility gathering? We started this event — and an associated little firestorm — by broaching the topic of credibility on the web.  It was something, we thought, that both journalists and bloggers ought to have a role in working on.  Over the past two days … Read more

Bill Mitchell kicks off the afternoon with questions (copied out of the IRC transcript; thanks SJ): * Is there something we can do collectively to enable us to achieve better representations of reality? * If journalism is becoming a conversation and not a lecture, it becomes more a relationship and less a contract.  What does … Read more

The WebCred conference this morning was lively and fun, but/and very civilized.  Not much red meat out there.  I’d say that bloggers and the cross-over types, talked way more than journalists.  Most of the discussion focused on what’s great about blogs and citizen journalism and the opportunity of the technologists; second-most, I’d say was about … Read more

From the most ethical, and perhaps funniest (does that make sense, that those traits would go together?), blogger I know, David Weinberger, a piece on a failure of disclosure and Richard Edelman’s new blog.  Jay Rosen has more on a related theme.