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December 02, 2004

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Russell Buckley

Thanks for the mention, especially in such exalted company :-)

Let me know if I can help.

Russell/

curt

Regarding this: “people who ‘get it’ and understand how they can tap the latest technology to improve the craft of journalism -- and help it survive.” I love the info-at-your-fingertips (not to mention press-at-your-fingertips) of the latest technology. But one thing that is under-emphasized in blogging/citizen journalism and that traditional journalism does best (when it bothers to do it at all which it often doesn’t): getting out of your chair and hitting the streets. As a citizen journalist/blogger/whatchamajigger, don’t just link & quote, don’t just pull together info from databases (though I love those things), and don’t even just make a phone call (though please at least do that). Get up, get on your feet, on your bike, on your horse or Segway or skateboard, or in your car and go to where you can look at your subject with your own eyes; interview people face-to-face. Not only does it make the piece live, it is WAY MORE FUN.

I’m just sayin’ is all…

And regarding “A balance of privacy for journalists with the public's need to know who they are and where they come from,” what about insisting that all contributors first contribute (and then maintain) a profile in which they make a good faith attempt to posit some foundational ideas that they bring with them and that will influence what they cover, if not how. (“Hi, I’m Andre, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist goat-roper. I hate imminent domain but I love micro-lending.”)

“…the Web audience is potentially global and therefore work together to create stories and packages that cross national and cultural boundaries.” This answers my earlier question under Fixing Neighborhoods.

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