“I am a tenured professor of journalism, I can do whatever the fuck I want,” said Jay Rosen (right), NYU tenured professor of journalism. Rosen was speaking at the New York Social Media Club meeting, at Edelman Worldwide New York headquarters, last Tuesday. Â
Rosen was explaining why mainstream media would never undertake his current project of “Pro-Am” journalism fittingly called  Assignment Zero. The schtick is to combine ”citizen journalists” and “professional” journalists to collaborate on a giant, evolving story.  Rosen says he already has 700 people signed up for the project, nearly triple what they expected. Every edit, thought, revision is recorded on the web. All this is intended to prove … ?
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that the company knew about the deaths and did not order a recall. Menu Foods of Canada was completely unprepared for this, even though they had been testing for some time.
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bunch who don’t easily forget. There is no readily available information from any of the affected major brands, the manufacturer is overwhelmed and unprepared. Supposedly, they had been testing the food for some time to try to pinpoint the exact cause of the problem. They should have been better prepared. They better get their act together fast.
contrary, there is a bit of a learning curve for some who might not be used to writing press releases or distributing that content. Our challenge is to make that whole process easier. Traditional wire services are good, but not good enough for the types of people and organizations we are targeting. Their audiences and needs are much more pragmatic. Local news is most relevant locally.
 So this opens the doors for very targeted distribution of your media content from the organization’s end. 
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the legal, ethical, and moral imperatives of bloggers to the nuts and bolts of how to choose and use a blog platform, and how to get picked up by search engines and aggregators. The Handbook is written with a world view, so there is discussion about technical ways to get around censorship. According to the report, China is the world champion in omniscient and effective Internet censorship,  closely followed by Vietnam with its cyber-police and spies in Internet cafes. 
Where’s the outrage? Not on the blogosphere, apparently. On TV and in print we see dramatic, theatrical footage of angry Brazilians taking to the streets with Bush as Hitler posters, denouncing Bush as a terrorist and assassin, throwing rocks in a haze of tear gas. This is news? Everybody liked Clinton, with his Kennedy glow, but otherwise it’s been SOP for a U.S. President to go to Latin America and be denounced as the Devil. Bush v. Chavez adds drama and tension to the story but what is the story? Home grown bloggers should be leading the discussion, or at least give us some insight into the real issues. Slim pickens on inidigenous Brazilian bloggers addressing these issues except for AlterDestiny, who says that the story is that we are focusing on the wrong story.
Wikis sound cute but they can be clunky and forbidding and mysterious. What’s a wiki? Very simply, it’s a web page or a web site that can be edited easily by multiple users (think Wikipedia). By all rights the wiki is the most elegant, simplest, cheapest web-based collaboration tool available. It can be used for individual projects, enterprise-wide initiatives, a family reunion, any event that requires collaboration between two or more people. I first became aware of wikis through 
So, I’ve been waiting for someone to figure out how to simplify and package the wiki for the masses. Is 
