Scoopler: Real-time search
http://www.scoopler.com/

Scoopler ist Suchmaschine mit Echtzeitsuche.

a provocative argument against the stand-by-and-watch version of citizen journalism. I'd argue, though, that those who stand by and watch are in the minority among the Twitter population.

I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick. Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency, the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view. Unfortunately it’s hard to feel smug – hard to feel anything but sadness and nausea – when thirteen innocent people are dead.

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A new service from YouTube which takes the idea of embedding code one step further: you now can embed upload functions directly on your site, allowing for your users to upload videos to you without having to go through youtube.com

Permet aux citoyens de proposer des video de leur actualité à des médias. Peut s'installer sur son site.

Is this useful and good or just more spreading of the hegemony of Google to everywhere?

spot.us experiment to crowd-source journalism

These days, everywhere you look it seems that some newspaper is closing its doors, stopping its presses, or maybe just going online-only. This sea of change is being heralded by some as the "death of journalism," a transformation that has been brought about thanks to the web. But is the web really killing journalism? Or, is it allowing an entirely new type of journalism to emerge?

Spot.us is a non-profit startup which distributes the cost of hiring a journalist across a community of people. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Spot.us has already funded stories where journalists have investigated things like the local police department, poverty issues, and city budgetary issues.

Spot.us, SF. crowd-funded journalism. Local stories/issues. Story funded; if publ rts sold will reimburse donors; if not, story released under CC for anyone to republ. Knight Fndtn Grant; also ask cmmty to donate additional $2/partic story. Idea brrwd from Kiva.org micro-financing site: p2p micro-lending. Non-prof: low ovrhds. Aim for (local) journalism to survive death of its institutions. Open-src. Hoping to spread to other locs. Anyone can create pitch: civic stories (politics, edu, enviro etc).

I'm in two minds about the creation of a Twitter correspondent by Sky News. By Jemima Kiss

[no comment] RT @simeonkerr Sky News appoints Twitter correspondent! http://tinyurl.com/cgd4vm [from http://twitter.com/s_m_i/statuses/1300356459]

RT @tomsmiled: @skynews appoints a Twitter correspondent to scour for interesting news http://bit.ly/jcI8k [from http://twitter.com/theholodeck/statuses/1283827369]

Media - Guardian - Twitter

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chaotic situations result in poor information flow — even to the “professional” journalists who are working at the scene. First-hand and second-hand reports on Twitter are no worse. Should anyone take them as gospel, or the final version of the events? No. Obviously, at some point someone has to check the facts, confirm reports, analyze the outcome, and so on. News reporting and journalism are much more of a process than they are a discrete thing. But as I have tried to argue before, Twitter reports are a valuable “first draft of history,” and that is a pretty good definition of the news.

Globe and mail online journ writer

Hyperlocal news projects that start tiny have a greater chance of success – but many find themselves with more kudos than cash

Hyperlokale Nachrichtenprojekte sprießen derzeit wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Doch haben sie eine echte Chance? Diese Fragen gehen Jemima Kiss und Heather Christie für den Guardian nach.

Gran análisis sobre periodismo ciudadano en GB por parte del blog de medio de The Guardian

Jemima Kiss and Heather Christie/The Guardian, June 14, 2010.

"Would you trust a citizen brain surgeon?" This was a common refrain in 2005, as the news industry grappled with citizen journalism and the implications of a new technologically empowered public. But many of the most promising and worthy projects have vapourised. While the concept seems admirable, and experimentation valuable, it is invariably the finances that just don't work. So is there any viable commercial future? The "citizen journalism" label has been largely unhelpful. The most exciting developments now might be news, but the content is often closer to community activism. Many are finally beginning to tap into the growing resources of community tech tools, from FixMyStreet.com to a wave of civic-minded apps, such as those developed by Social Innovation Camp.

Hyperlocal news projects that start tiny have a greater chance of success – but many find themselves with more kudos than cash

Hyperlokale Nachrichtenprojekte sprießen derzeit wie Pilze aus dem Boden. Doch haben sie eine echte Chance? Diese Fragen gehen Jemima Kiss und Heather Christie für den Guardian nach.

Gran análisis sobre periodismo ciudadano en GB por parte del blog de medio de The Guardian

Jemima Kiss and Heather Christie/The Guardian, June 14, 2010.

"Would you trust a citizen brain surgeon?" This was a common refrain in 2005, as the news industry grappled with citizen journalism and the implications of a new technologically empowered public. But many of the most promising and worthy projects have vapourised. While the concept seems admirable, and experimentation valuable, it is invariably the finances that just don't work. So is there any viable commercial future? The "citizen journalism" label has been largely unhelpful. The most exciting developments now might be news, but the content is often closer to community activism. Many are finally beginning to tap into the growing resources of community tech tools, from FixMyStreet.com to a wave of civic-minded apps, such as those developed by Social Innovation Camp.