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Three Ideas About Citizen Journalism and Web 2.0

Knight 2007 News Challenge Winner
Lisa Williams

by Lisa Williams (Bio), October 16, 2007

Tagged: blogging, citizen journalism

"Is the Zapruder film citizen journalism?" Amy Gahran, 2005

To paraphrase Dave Winer, "You'll make more money because of your blog than from your blog." But read the whole thing.

The net rewards narrow comprehensiveness -- " everything about something. Listen to Brewster Kahle, who runs the Internet Archive.

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