The Guardian’s Jack Schofield has a chat with the founder of OhmyNews.com, the Korean online newspaper. Could it work elsewhere, he asks? (My answer is at the bottom of the story.)
(Cross-posted to We the Media.)
Comments
Posted by: Gabe on July 24, 2004 02:34 PM
I’d say blogging holds important advantages for citizen reporters, among them, real-time control over publication, updates, and followups.
At the same time, the OhMyNews approach seems to impose fewer barriers to earning a spot on the front page everyone’s reading for many reporters.
An approach combining the best of the two might involve a popular site republishing what’s blogged. The next generation of my site will hopefully attempt to do this in a mostly automated fashion. But a human-edited approach may even be more successful.
Posted by: pr on July 26, 2004 04:11 AM
One word – Indymedia
Posted by: Gabe on July 24, 2004 02:34 PM
I’d say blogging holds important advantages for citizen reporters, among them, real-time control over publication, updates, and followups.
At the same time, the OhMyNews approach seems to impose fewer barriers to earning a spot on the front page everyone’s reading for many reporters.
An approach combining the best of the two might involve a popular site republishing what’s blogged. The next generation of my site will hopefully attempt to do this in a mostly automated fashion. But a human-edited approach may even be more successful.