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March 26, 2009
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Busy times!
September 10, 2008
Apologies for the few postings in recent weeks…. I’ve been busy moving to NYC for a new job, hiring a new Executive Director for the Online News Association, and preparing for this week’s ONA conference in D.C.
Hope to see you there!
Most influential blogs: Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon
June 14, 2008
Vanity Fair has produced perhaps the definitive blog matrix, placing the most prominent and influential blogs on a vertical axis of news to opinion (Consumerist to PostSecret) and a horizontal axis of scurrilous to earnest (TMZ to SCOTUSblog). With eye-catching, clickable icons and brief pop-up descriptions of each blog, it’s pretty and practical. And CyberJournalist.net is honored to be included in the Earnest News quadrant, along such luminaries as Jim Romenesko and Talking Points Memo. Thanks VF! Read more »
TodayOnline: Time for bloggers to self-regulate
December 4, 2006
Cyberjournalist.net, which is linked to the Online News Association in New York, has proposed a Bloggers’ Code of Ethics which it encourages bloggers to use.
The code lays down best practices for bloggers to “be honest and fair”, to “minimise harm” and to “be accountable”. This is modelled after a similar code for journalists created by the Society of Professional Journalists in the United States.
Pinoy Press: Protect Internet Publishers
November 27, 2006
The Pinoy Press (in Manila, Philippines) quotes this comment from CyberJournalist.net user Mark about the recent California Supreme Court ruling that Internet publishers could not be held liable if they posted defamatory comments written by others:
If Bloggers and “Citizen Journalists” want to be taken seriously they need to start behaving seriously. You can’t claim to be a journalists one day, and then say you shouldn’t be held accountable (as journalist are) the next.
Detroit Free Press: Asked and answered
November 13, 2006
QUESTION: Just how many blogs are there?
ANSWER: Two more than when you began this sentence.
Technorati, which tracks such things, concluded the 50 millionth blog came into existence July 31, according to the online newsletter CyberJournalist.net.
It said Technorati also found that the blogosphere is doubling about every 6.5 months, which would mean 100 million by next January, around the time of the Detroit auto show. (Now there’s something to blog about.)
That rate works out to about 175,000 new blogs each day, or more than two per second.
Cyberjournalist.net includes a quote from David Weinberger, a new-media advocate, with a play on Andy Warhol’s maxim: “On the Web, everyone will be famous to 15 people.”
One wonders who’s reading the spreading online torrent.
American Journalism Review: Online Scoops
October 29, 2006
Says Jonathan Dube, a vice president of the Online News Association and publisher of CyberJournalist.net: “In this day and age, it would be foolish for any newspaper company to just think of itself as a ‘newspaper’ company and not a media company. The notion that a company like the Denver Post could ’scoop’ itself is ridiculous and narrow-minded.”
National Journal: My wiki, wiki ways
February 5, 2006
National Journal’s Craig Colgan:
Give the Times credit for investigating unusual technology such as wikis, said Internet journalism pioneer and analyst Jonathan Dube. “Whether that format can work for news sites is hard to know until someone figures it out,” he said.
WSJ.com: Community Web Sites Explore How to Sustain Themselves Financially
February 1, 2006
You can find a list of many of community sites at cyberjournalist.net.
Deccan Herald, India
January 15, 2006
Cyberjournalist.net is a website worth checking out….