Monthly Archives: December 2007

Are these the ten most popular journalism bloggers in America?

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Inspired by Martin Belam’s extensive charts of popular RSS feeds, and Adrian Monck’s list of popular UK journalism bloggers, I’ve grabbed the baton and produced a chart of the top ten American journo-bloggers, based on combined subscriptions via Google Reader and Bloglines:

  1. BuzzMachine (Jeff Jarvis) – 2621
  2. PressThink (Jay Rosen) – 1670*
  3. Social Media (JD Lasica) – 1642
  4. Adrian Holovaty – 1257
  5. Dan Gillmor – 1112
  6. Teaching Online Journalism (Mindy McAdams) – 668
  7. First Draft by Tim Porter – 461
  8. Journerdism (Will Sullivan) – 299
  9. Rob Curley – 268
  10. Steve Yelvington – 256

Not included are Susan Mernit (712), or the various Poynter, OJR and Cyberjournalist sites, which are set up as news services more than blogs. Continue reading →

Review: Fora.tv

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What do they say it is?

“FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world’s most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation. It provides deep, unfiltered content, tools for self-expression and a place for the interactive community to gather online(…) enables a new, global media opportunity by aggregating a daily range of events, produced and electronically shipped by institutions or freelance producers, from around the world.”

What do we say it is?

A top I.Q. multimedia soapbox, where we can find the ideas of “poets, authors, policy experts, activists, madmen, government leaders, visionary thinkers”. A showroom for brilliance and discussion, in various topics from health to religion, from politics to arts. Video is privileged. Continue reading →

Review: iNorden

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iNorden

What do they say it is?

“iNorden.org is a joint Nordic citizen journalism initiative inviting bloggers, writers, aspiring and experienced journalists to contribute in the creation of a Nordic news portal.”

What do we say it is?

iNorden is yet another citJ experiment. The difference here is that it’s driven by a sort of pan-Scandinavian post-nationalism rather than profit. Continue reading →

Highlighter-photoblogging the NUJ report pt3

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If you want to know what I think in more depth, read Neil McIntosh’s summary. I’ve taken over his mind to save myself typing. Tomorrow he’ll wake up feeling woozy and wondering why The Guardian have decided to launch a site devoted to Bolton Wanderers.

Meanwhile, here’s some more highlighterphotoblogging:

More from Martin Stabe.

Online Journalism Atlas: online journalism in Switzerland

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In the second part of the Online Journalism Atlas, Nico Luchsinger looks at how the news industry in Switzerland is experimenting with new media – and how new media is experimenting with news. Got any information about your own country’s online journalism? Add it here.

In late August this year [2007], the Swiss Publisher’s Association (VSP) issued a statement. In it, the publishers attacked the Google News service, claiming that Google were infringing copyrights with the news aggregation service, and announced plans to launch their own news portal to rival the internet giant. A few weeks later, VSP president Hanspeter Lebrument was quoted as saying that “Google is afraid of us. If we’re not around anymore, Google has no content to offer.” Continue reading →