Categories: citizen media

News Rating Service NewsTrust Launches Beta

Posted by: Rob Hof on November 29

When I first wrote about NewsTrust, an online news rating service, I wasn't sure about how well a rating system for stories would work given the subjectivity about what's good...

The Dirt on Techdirt's New Blogger Community

Posted by: Rob Hof on October 11

I've always liked the sharp, pithy analysis of current tech issues on the Techdirt blog, but it turns out that's just the tip of the iceberg for the Belmont (Calif.)-based...

Wikipedia: Maybe It's Democratic After All

Posted by: Rob Hof on September 04

Lately, some skeptical folks, notably Nick Carr, have been wondering how democratic a process Wikipedia really has. Even founder Jimmy Wales has noted that a very small number of people...

Digg It Monday

Posted by: Rob Hof on June 23

As we first noted a couple of weeks ago, the collaborative tech news site Digg would soon be branching out into more general news. TechCrunch's Mike Arrington has the skinny...

Digg This: Soon, Not Just for Geeks Anymore

Posted by: Rob Hof on June 11

Digg, the collaborative tech news site, will soon branch out beyond geekdom. At a Web 2.0 panel at the eBay Developers Conference today, President Kevin Rose said that in the...

Backfence Buys Bayosphere

Posted by: Rob Hof on April 17

Dan Gillmor's Bayosphere citizen media project, the San Francisco Bay Area citizen media site that my colleague Heather Green wrote about a couple months ago, is being acquired by Backfence.com--which...

Death to "User-Generated Content"?

Posted by: Rob Hof on April 05

Derek Powazek calls for a death sentence on the term "user-generated content," which I also think is an ugly term. As Derek puts it: They're words that creepy marketeers use....

Bayosphere and Beyond

Posted by: Rob Hof on February 14

My colleague Heather Green's story on why Dan Gillmor's citizen journalism project Bayosphere never caught fire has escaped our subscription firewall. Dan himself had listed plenty of his own reasons,...