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F2C Day 2, Part 1 : The media – the panel
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 03/07/2007 - 10:27Day two of Freedom to Connect started off with a “Peer Production News Panel”, featuring Dan Gillmor, Mark Tapscott, Bill Allison, and Jonathan Krim. Dan mentioned his personal cliché about his audience knowing more about the subject than he does, and Mark Tapscott echoed that.
The discussion moved to the idea of distributed journalism. Tapscott suggested that it might be better called collaborative journalism, since distributed can sometimes connote a hierarchy, and he wasn’t sure that was necessarily the case for all of the times that citizens work together on the journalistic process.
There were discussions about New Assignment.Net, and how best to do distributed journalism. One of the problems that people seemed to be struggling with is the classic, “it would be easier just to do it myself” problem. In some cases, the amount of time spent coordinating efforts and training citizens that don’t know how to do investigative research seemed to be more than it would be to do the research oneself.
As I heard this discussion, my mind wandered back to Robert Lewis Stevenson’s quote, “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.” Perhaps some of these projects could be better done by a single individual, or a small group. Yet that is focusing on the arriving, the information gathered by the investigation. Instead, the true success might be to get more people to think about how news and information is gathered and the to think more critically about what they hear and read.
The continuing saga of the Connecticut Judiciary
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 03/03/2007 - 20:07When I came back from live blogging the Libby trial deliberations in Washington DC, I thought perhaps I would be done with blogging about the judiciary for a little while. I did not expect to find myself reading what I have been reading about the Connecticut Judiciary.
Tidbits from drinking with journalists
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 03/02/2007 - 16:19Last night, before hopping on the train back to Connecticut, I stopped by at a local bar to have drinks with some of the journalists covering the Libby Trial. A few other people with strong interests in the trial were there. The most important point that was brought up, especially when some of the others learned I was a blogger, was that everything there was somewhere between off the record and deeply, deeply, deeply off the record. The more drinks we had, the further off the record we went.
Meanwhile, back in Connecticut
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 03/02/2007 - 13:44After spending most of the week live blogging the Libby Trial deliberations in Washington DC, I arrived home in Connecticut early this morning. I want to write up some my experiences in DC, but first, I wanted to check to see what is going on with the Ken Krayeske trial. A quick scan of online sources causes me to pause, and instead reflect on the state of the judiciary in Connecticut.
I don’t want to come off as any sort of ‘expert’ on the role of new media in coverage of judicial proceedings. It probably takes a lot more than four days as a blogger at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, but that is probably four more days and a lot more thinking on the subject than most people in Connecticut.
Final day at the Courthouse
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 03/01/2007 - 09:53Well, this is it, my final day at the courthouse during the Libby deliberations. I don’t know if this will be the day that the jury reaches a verdict. I would love it to be, but I have my doubts. So, stepping away from the reporting on minutiae and the speculation about what it means, let me return to some personal thoughts about the bigger picture.
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