Seeing as - after a lot of bleating and ball going homery - Jay has pointed to a couple of blogs that may actually qualify as citizen journalists, I think an index needs to be kept. Send in links to sites where people are doing more than cutting and pasting like going to look see or reporting back - and not on the axe they ground as they were there but on what they witnessed. So far I have:
...though the latter is more like dedicated pre-judgment mixed with a lot of spare time meets actual analysis. But he seems to actually go out to bear witness, too.Send any more suggestions along to add to the list. Seeing how perfectly wonderful and life altering the internet has been for us all, there ought to be a tidal wave about to hit the comments. And don't bother with the wage paid or the paid-off. Simon of Dryden's recent summary manifesto helps with the focus.
Comments
cm - January 25, 2007 9:27 pm
Life altering, yes. Wonderful? The jury's still out.
Alan - January 26, 2007 4:36 pm
Not citizen journalism, but an effort to express approval or disapproval of web content, not just popularity based on user presence.