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Cell Journalism & Mobile Blogging Most of us reading this post can remember the days when cell phones did not exist. A time of being "disconnected" and essentially "unreachable" to the world at large. Those days are long over and if there is one detail in specific which ties both hyperlocal blogging and citizen journalism [...]

Online Transcription Service One amazing tool for any hyperlocal journalist is the ability to take their stories and get it out into the world both quickly and accurately.{{{gold}}} With online transcription services working around the clock it is now possible for you to upload audio and video files and have full and accurate transcriptions available [...]

WP (WordPress) iPhone & Blackberry Application Ok, so if you haven’t figured this out by now the citizen journalist of the future will be highly mobile and often times in situations in which they do not have access to a personal computer other than a mobile phone.{{{gold}}} The WordPress iPhone application is a utility created [...]

Cell Journalism: The use of a cellular phone to capture up to the minute breaking news from around the world. Cell journalism can occur through the submission of direct phone call, citizen reviews, citizen news reports, interviews, text messages, photographs and or video capture by cell. Cell phones are highly mobile and widely available for [...]

When the people formally known as the audience employ the press tools in their possession to inform one another! – Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at NYU GOT IT!

President Barack Obama told CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux that he found the video of a murdered Iranian woman to be “heartbreaking and that to see something like this happen is “fundamentally unjust”. {{{gold}}} A video showing the death of Neda Agha-Soltan has been widely circulated on the internet after Iran’s crackdown on protesters. This video is [...]

In November 2006, Peter Berdovsky, a Boston area artist, met a man named “John” in New York. John worked for marketing company Interference, Inc. and asked Berdovsky if he would be interested in working on a promotional project. Berdovsky agreed and then enlisted Sean Stevens to help in the project. Interference shipped Berdovsky 40 electronic [...]

Also known as THE GREAT EQUALIZER the internet is allowing us not only to communicate as never before it is suddenly giving millions upon millions of people a voice in creating and building the foundations for a TRUE Media Democracy.

I am the first one to enter the conference room. As I look around at the chairs, podiums and hors d’oeuvres, I wonder how the Charter Team is going to arrive. What would these movers and shakers look like? Charter Communications is huge! They have over 5.7 million customers in 29 states and employ 16,400 [...]

I had renewed hope today when I read one or our new online interview submissions. It was a story written by a young woman who has opened a new dance studio in our town. I had asked here if she wanted to do an interview and she agreed. I then emailed her my interview questions [...]

Yelp sits in the drivers seat to unleash one of the world’s most interesting and best citizen journalism prototypes. With thousand of citizen journalist style real reviews posted daily, and an arsenal of hundreds of thousands of testimonials, Yelp is essentially nothing more than a citizen journalism mecca. Review site sure, but beyond this it [...]