Sunday, February 17, 2008
iReport.com
So I looked at looked at the cyberjournalist.net and followed a link to iReport.com and CNN.com. It turns out iReport.com is a place where people post news they see and CNN.com looks through the different postings and they place some of them on their website. CNN will censor some of the things they put on their website but nothing is censored on iReport.com. According to iReport.com they have had 89,900 reports worldwide and 915 of them were used on CNN.com last month. There is a lot of cool stuff on these sites and it shows how citizen journalists can cover more news than any one type of news organization. I am pretty sure it is all videos but it is a great place to find breaking news.
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Trent: I hadn't been to this site yet. Thanks.
Here's one for you to check out:
http://current.com/network
This is the network started by former Vice President Al Gore. Do you think it could have a chance?
Yeah it seems like there is more production in it rather than just normal people catching news on their camera by chance. Current also has a cable channel so I am guessing that is where the production pieces are from. If Gore is backing the site I am sure it will do good because Gore did invent the internet after all.
iReport seems fairly similar to Digg, at least in concept. Does anyone (anyone reading this, anyway) use Digg? I see tons of people linking to Digg these days (and demanding people to "digg it!") but I've also heard complaints about the "bury" feature and how it can be abused by "bury brigades."
Anyway, that's getting a little off topic, but iReport reminds me of Digg.
In response to your comment on my kevin sites post, i agree that more reporting on war zones would be more beneficial than what jessica simpson is wearing.
However, it seems that the opposite is happening.. more Jessica, less war.
What does that say about society? government?
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