Dan Gillmor is visiting Internet, Law and Politics at HLS today. The topic is the changing nature of the citizen in a “we the media” world. – I asked him what he thinks about Global Voices, which we covered a few weeks ago in this class. Of course he loves it, but he said he … Read more
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.
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
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 (credits to 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 it … Read more
The WebCred conference this morning was lively and fun, but/and very civilized. Not much red meat out there, for better or for worse. 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, … Read more
Yet more insight: just before winging his way across the country from Seattle to ever-so-wintry Boston, Jon Bonne of MSNBC.com tells us why credibility matters, for both journalists and bloggers. Getting credibility right online is essential.
Dan Gillmor has posted The End of Objectivity on his hot new citizens’ journalism blog, in preparation for the web-cred conference. He’s focused on thoroughness, accuracy, fairness, and transparency. An instant must-read. How can we assure an Accountable Net? How can we ensure credible information as we build out online?
A very thoughtful commentary on web credibility and not inventing the wheel over at Scott Rosenberg’s blog. Duly noted.
Dave Berlind has an opinion piece in ZDNET, asking questions about credibility on the web, in advance of this weekend’s conference on the same topic. He’s thinking of creative ways that we can use the technology to enhance transparency online, like linking to segments of podcasts of interviews that provide richer detail on what the … Read more