The Association of Food Journalists just announced that MSNBC’s Jon Bonne won not just first place (for his piece on Rhubarb) but also second place (for his Beaujolais nouveau instant classic) in the Best Food Coverage on the Internet category for 2005. Next year, he ought to go for the trifecta.
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.
In the online debate about citizen bloggers, journalists and the NH primary, Dave Winer has posted his reply to MSNBC‘s Jon Bonne. Also: it’s true: Dave Winer will be with us at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School for another year. Resident fellows at the Berkman Center usually stay for only one academic year, but we’re … Read more
A very intriguing comment from Dan Bricklin on the Blogs at Harvard Law home page, noting that not a) not all bloggers are created equally and b) that bloggers may have some key natural advantages in covering a primary than ordinary reporters would: “Politicians will be more open to real voters debating them than a reporter who must … Read more
I’ve been thinking about how we can use our Blogs initiative to get serious debate going on topics that we care about. One of my ideas is to set up, from time to time, online debates that put ideas coming out of the Berkman Center to the test — sort of a peer review via … Read more