Comments on: Citizen journalism climbing up the UK media ladder http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/ Where media and technology meet Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:38:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Reliable Hosting http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-53152 Reliable Hosting Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:23:35 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-53152 During recent terrorist attack in Bombay, Indian Government inadvertently blocked the entire country's access to all blogs resultant we were unable to access blogs, my point is during such Surprise Strike how a citizen journalist can access blogs to communicate? During recent terrorist attack in Bombay, Indian Government inadvertently blocked the entire country’s access to all blogs resultant we were unable to access blogs, my point is during such Surprise Strike how a citizen journalist can access blogs to communicate?

]]> By: Joseph Salomonsen http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-2325 Joseph Salomonsen Mon, 01 May 2006 20:50:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-2325 Blogging is a heaven sent to the people of dictatorships like North Korea and Iran An Iranian Blogger Blogging is a heaven sent to the people of dictatorships like North Korea and Iran

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]]> By: Ian Kemmish http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-2242 Ian Kemmish Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:53:40 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-2242 Surely this is all a false dichotomy? The unedited contents of a million bloggers spleens is just as worthless as the news channel that squeezes world events in between celebrity pregnancies. In a world where everyone can publish whatever they want, nothing is worth reading. A plague on both these rank houses. The real alternative to both is sufficient universal education for people to have both the thirst for information and the ability to digest it. An observation that is as old as the hills, of course. The Reuters/BBC survey is presumably aimed at people on both sides of this dichotomy - yet as early as question 1 it assumes a particular clichéd mode of thinking. Society is carved up into a few groups which have no correlation at all with trustworthiness. And, since there is no "none of the above" button, anyone who realises that the dichotomy is false, is simply prevented from participating in the survey. But then I suppose, if they were allowed to participate, they might ruin a good news story.... Surely this is all a false dichotomy? The unedited contents of a million bloggers spleens is just as worthless as the news channel that squeezes world events in between celebrity pregnancies. In a world where everyone can publish whatever they want, nothing is worth reading. A plague on both these rank houses. The real alternative to both is sufficient universal education for people to have both the thirst for information and the ability to digest it. An observation that is as old as the hills, of course.

The Reuters/BBC survey is presumably aimed at people on both sides of this dichotomy - yet as early as question 1 it assumes a particular clichéd mode of thinking. Society is carved up into a few groups which have no correlation at all with trustworthiness. And, since there is no “none of the above” button, anyone who realises that the dichotomy is false, is simply prevented from participating in the survey. But then I suppose, if they were allowed to participate, they might ruin a good news story….

]]> By: Stoomzee http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-2204 Stoomzee Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:39:00 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2006/04/28/citizen-journalism-climbing-up-the-uk-media-ladder/#comment-2204 Blogs are good for expressing yourself and to document and archive your thoughts or comments of specific times and dates, for future reference. Personal websites make blogs less important to most people. The reason most people don't bother with bloging or reading blogs is because there are so many websites and so much information available on the internet to read which is updated constantly. Therefore the websites do the same thing the blogs do only with much more to offer and in real time. Message boards such as Yahoo provide yet another avenue for the internet surfer to find interesting thoughts and comments they might be looking for or to make themselves. The bottom line to a successful blog or website is what you say and publish. This is what will make your comments and the blog or web site work best. If you have something interesting to contribute to the world wide web, people will come back to hear more! Blogs are good for expressing yourself and to document and archive your thoughts or comments of specific times and dates, for future reference.

Personal websites make blogs less important to most people.

The reason most people don’t bother with bloging or reading blogs is because there are so many websites and so much information available on the internet to read which is updated constantly. Therefore the websites do the same thing the blogs do only with much more to offer and in real time. Message boards such as Yahoo provide yet another avenue for the internet surfer to find interesting thoughts and comments they might be looking for or to make themselves.

The bottom line to a successful blog or website is what you say and publish. This is what will make your comments and the blog or web site work best. If you have something interesting to contribute to the world wide web, people will come back to hear more!

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