We the Media Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People

By Dan Gillmor
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Index

[ Numbers ], [ A ], [ B ], [ C ], [ D ], [ E ], [ F ], [ G ], [ H ], [ I ], [ J ], [ K ], [ L ], [ M ], [ N ], [ O ], [ P ], [ R ], [ S ], [ T ], [ U ], [ V ], [ W ], [ Y ], [ Z ],

Numbers[ Top ]
2600 (hacker magazine), 206

A[ Top ]
Abu Ghraib prison, photos of prisoner abuse by Americans, 48
accuracy, maintaining in interactive journalism, 134
ActiveWords application, 70
activism
      BBC assistance with iCan project, 104, 123-125
      combating government invasions of citizens' privacy, 59
      grassroots journalism as tool for, 137
advertising
      anti-Bush commercials on MoveOn, 100
      Blogads, 88, 154
      Google AdWords program, 154
      supporting personal journalism, 152
Afghan-American writer, Tamim Ansary, 21
aggregators, 39, 167
agile radio, 234
airlines, SMS services offered by, 33
airwaves
      deregulation of, consequences for communications companies, 233
      end of scarcity of, 232
      regulation of, 231-232
Allbritton, Chris, 155
AllConsuming web service, 171
alternative media, 144-148
      problems of Indymedia due to lack of editorial oversight, 145
Amazon
      API for its software, 170
      authors writing (supposedly) customer book reviews, 180
Americans' abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, 48
anonymity on the Net, 180-182
      benefits of, 180
      credibility and, 181
      hazards of, 180
      preserving value of, 195
Ansary, Tamim, 21
APIs (application programming interfaces), 169-171
Apple Computer
      iPod, hackers finding undivulged feature of, 53
      RSS, use of, 82
      trade press and, 15
      weblogs, misunderstanding of, 82
appliances and devices, online information about, 52
asymmetrical warfare, 107
audience
      becoming active users of news, 238
      in charge as consumers and producers, 136-140
            alternative media, 144-148
            business models for personal journalism, 152-157
            citizen journalists, 137-140
            evolutionary and revolutionary effects, 140
            nonprofit community publishing, 142
            Wiki media, 148-151
audience (continued)
      consequences of collision of journalism and technology, 237
      invitations by journalists to contribute, 120-123
            BBC, iCan project, 123-125
            ethical standards, maintaining, 134-135
            new technologies, using, 130
            OhmyNews.com, 125-129
            updating journalism education, 131
      participation in talk radio, 10
      technological choices for consumers of news, 25
audio clips, recorded by journalists, 130
automobile electronic systems, information about on the Internet, 54

B[ Top ]
Balkin, Jack M., 194
Balkinization weblog, 195
Balz, Dan, 66
Barrett, Cameron, 103
barriers and secrecy, breakdown of, 59
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), 104
      3G mobile phones, use of, 131
      iCan project, 123-125
BBS (electronic bulletin boards) (see bulletin boards)
Benkler, Yochai, 17
Benson, Eric, 170
Berners-Lee, Tim, 11, 12, 23
Bharat, Krishna, 165
Big Media
      accuracy and fairness, maintaining, 188
      augmenting or replacing with open source technologies, 17
      controlling new media with government help, 172
      correcting misinformation on blogs or web sites, 104
      desktop publishing and, 10
      new kinds emerging, 165
      online conversations, risks of, 189
bioterrorism, 108
BitTorrent, 37
Blogads, 88, 154
Blogbot search tool (Microsoft), 167
Blogger, 20, 167
blogrolls, 40
Blogspot.com, 210
Blumenthal, Sidney, 192
book reviews (customer), written by authors on Amazon, 180
BookTalk service (Technorati), 169
Boyd, Wes, 100
Bradbury, Nick, 41
British Broadcasting Corporation (see BBC)
broadband telecommunications providers
      monopolies granted by government, 225
      threat to end-to-end principle, 225
Bruggeman, Buzz, 70
bulletin boards, 8
      information on products and devices, 53
      use by radical right as political organizing tool, 91
Bush, George W.
      anti-Bush commercials on MoveOn.org, 100
      Google bombers and, 185
      presidential campaign of 2000, 92
      reelection campaign, 2004, 91
business
      changes wrought by the Internet, 14
      efforts to restrict free information, 238
      open source as organization style for, 17
      RSS feeds, use of, 39
      weblogs, use of, 30
business models for personal journalism, 152-157
      advertising support, 152
      nano-publishing, 152
      niche business blogs, Weblogs, Inc., 153
      soliciting money from readers, 155-157
business-to-business publishing, 153
Buying of the President, The, 147

C[ Top ]
cable and phone companies
      cable television, 6
      refusal to share access to high-speed data lines, 225
      vertical control over data transport and content, 225
Cable News Network (see CNN)
Calacanis, Jason McCabe, 153
California Insider political blog, 114
camera phones, 26, 35
      news organizations, use of, 130
      privacy issues with, 35
camera-equipped mobile devices
      filming of police misconduct in Rodney King case, 49
      spreading news with, 48
car-defect reports, 54
CBS News, 178
celebrity blogs, 78-80
cell phones (see mobile phones)
censorship
      peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and, 38
      (see also government)
Center for Public Integrity, 147
CEO blogs, 72-74
Chandler, Ben, 88
Channel 9 blog, 75
Charlotte Observer, "Dispatches from along the coast", 115
chat rooms, 85
      discussions of stock prices and corporate financial performance, 56
cheating by using others' work, 200
      mechanism to catch violators, 200
Chinese government
      restrictions on Internet freedom, 210
      suppression of citizen weblogs, 141
Cisco Systems
      "News@Cisco" PR operation, 81
      tools to create walled gardens, 226
citizen journalists, 137-140
      alternative media, 144-148
      business models for personal journalism, 152-157
      nonprofit community publishing, 142
      Wiki media, 148-151
citizen reporters, 125-129
      fact checking by, 187
citizenship
      reinforcement with modern communications, 89
      weblogs as acts of civic engagement, 139
Clark, Joe, 82
Clark, Wesley, 103
client, 261
client/server technology, 11
Cluetrain Manifesto, 14
CNN, 7, 116
Coble, Howard, 92
collaboration tools, Wikis as, 32
Comcast, 225
      ownership interests in content, 227
Command Post, 103
      coverage of 2003 Gulf War, 147
comments (reader), posting on weblogs, 29
communication network, value of (Metcalfe's Law), 160
communications
      means of, 26
      new tools for, 69
      transformation of with emergence of web, 13
community publishing, nonprofit, 142
companies
      improving products with expert assistance from customers, 55
      learning to use new communication tools, 70
      online forums discussing stock prices and financial performance, 57
companies (continued)
      participating in discussion boards about their products, 59
      RSS feeds of major news, 81
      threatening American freedom of speech, 142
      tobacco companies, web-based documentation on, 51
CompuServe, 8
computer security and cyber-terrorism, 110
computer technology, media production and, 9
considering the source, 179
consumers, getting in-depth information on products, 52
content
      control by telecommunications companies, 225
      discrimination by cable and phone companies over material they don't control, 226
      licensing under Creative Commons license, 230
Content Scrambling System (CSS), 206
content servers, downloaders' computers as, 38
content-management systems for web publishing, 25
conversations
      journalism as, 14, 132
      markets as, 14
      personal weblogs participating in, 31
cookies, 211
Copeland, Henry, 154
copyright, 201-204
      anonymous defenders of on the Net, 181
      comparing infringement with plagiarism, 201
      "copyright cartel", 212-214
      correcting abuses of, 239
      Creative Commons Copyright, 230, 239
      customers engaging in political activism against, 228
      Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 204, 206
      digital watermarking of photos and videos, 178
      DVDs, unauthorized playback of, 206
      forbidden linking and, 205-208
      infringement by peer-to-peer sharing of music files, 37
      tech industry sellout, 220-224
corporate journalism
      history of, 4-7
      inability to adequately cover political issues, 103
corporate web sites, nature of, 30
corporate weblogs, 71-77
creating our own news reports, tools for, 164-166
Creative Commons Copyright, 230, 239
credibility, anonymity and, 181
crime prevention through use of camera-equipped mobile devices, 48
Cryptome web site, 61
CSS (Content Scrambling System), 206
Cuban, Mark, 73
Cunningham, Ward, 31
Curley, Rob, 117
Current Events service (Technorati), 169
customers
      exchanging information about products, 52-55
            Apple iPod, 53
            automobile electronic systems, 54
            DishPlayer, 52
      manufacturer control over, 54
      power to become politically active, 229
customer-written book reviews, Amazon, 180
CyberJournalist.net, 114

D[ Top ]
Daily Kos weblog, 88, 103
database, 261
data-mining program to detect suspicious activities of potential terrorists, 60
Dean, Howard, 59
      limitations of new communications tools in campaigns, 89
      open source politics in his campaign, 101
      shakeup of American politics with new media, 94-99
deceptive online content, 174
DeCSS code, 206
      copyright infringement by posting, 206
      posting of, trade secrets lawsuit against, 208
defamation of character
      Australian jurisdiction and, 197
      suit by Sidney Blumenthal against online journalist, 192
DefenseLink web site, 107
Democracy Now! radio and web operation, 145
Denton, Nick, 152
Department of Defense, posting of interview transcripts, 66
Derakhshan, Hossein, 141
desktop publishing, 9
digital cameras, 34
      use by journalists, 130
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 204
      movie studios' case against 2600 magazine, 206
digital watermarking of photos and videos, 178
discussion boards
      companies participating in, 59
      information on products and devices, 53
      marketing and PR, use of, 85
      questioning veracity of comments from anonymous posters, 181
Dish Networks, participation in online discussions of their products, 59
DishPlayer video recorder, web information on upgrading, 52
distorting meaning by cutting and pasting news items, 174
domain names, trademarks and, 202
Driscoll, Jack, 143
Drudge, Matt, 179
      defamation suit against, 192
DVDs, copyright issues, 205

E[ Top ]
Earth 911, 105
EchoStar (home satellite TV system), 59
editorial supervision, lacking in Indymedia, 145
editors, need for, 135
education of journalists, changes in, 131-134
e-government, 105
electronic bulletin boards (see bulletin boards)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 201, 229
electronic products, improvement by hacking, 53
electronic system (automotive), online information from hackers, 54
"electronic town halls", 91
email, 69
      free speech and, 199
      marketing and PR, use of, 85
      use by PR industry, 81
email lists, 25
Emergence, 26
emissions-control devices on autos, hacker information on, 54
Emulex company, 178
end-to-end principle in Internet design, 224
      preserving, methods of, 230
Ethernet networking standard, 160
ethics
      grassroots journalism, problems with, 173
      standards in multidirectional journalism, 134-135
ethnic press, emergence with desktop publishing, 10
event blog, 115

F[ Top ]
fact checking online content, 187
factorial, 161
fair use, 213
      copyright infringement and plagiarism vs., 201
      refusing to buy from companies that abuse, 229
fairness, maintaining in interactive journalism, 134
Farber, Dave, 19
FCC
      curbs on free speech, 234
      freeing up more unlicensed spectrum, 231
      phone company control of high-speed data pipes they build, 225
      Spectrum Policy Task Force, 231
Feedster service, 42, 70, 167
few-to-few communication, 26
      online, 161
file-sharing model (peer-to-peer (P2P)), 37
filtering Internet content, 212
financial forums, companies going after posters of allegedly defamatory material, 195
Fiorina, Carly, 228
First Amendment rights, 140
      code and, 206
      jurisdiction for Internet material and, 197
Fleishman, Glenn, 152
Fleshbot weblog, 152
forums, online, 28
free software
      definition of, 261
      development of, 16
      source code, open, 16
free speech, 140
      boosting with deregulation of the airwaves, 234
      defamation and libel issues for Internet content, 192-196
      email and, 199
      threatened in America by government and big companies, 142
fringe political groups on electronic bulletin boards, 9
Frontier application, 15
fund-raising on the Internet, 98-99
fundraising on the Internet
      Ben Chandler, campaign for U.S. Congress, 88

G[ Top ]
Gaffin, Adam, 186
Gates, Bill, 74
Gawker weblog, 152
General Electric, NBC News unit, 166
Gilmore, John, 60
Gizmodo weblog, 83, 152
      revenue sources, 153
Goodman, Amy, 146
Google
      API for its software, 170
      Blogger company, 167
      Page Rank, 169
      as reputation system, 171
      searching for plagiarizers, 200
Google AdWords, 154
"Google bombing", 185
Google Hypothesis, link structure matters, 168
Google News, 165-166
      Google Alerts, 165
      refusal to acknowledge news from grassroots journalism, 166
      removal of Indymedia from its listings, 145
GoogObits web service, 171
Gordon, Rich, 133
gossip mongering on the Internet, 179
government
      American freedom of speech, threats to, 142
      efforts to restrict free information, 238
      new media, attempts to control, 173
      Philippines, role of technology in bringing down (2001), 91
      privacy invaders, turning tables on, 60
      repression, countering with citizen weblogs, 141
      restrictions on grassroots journalism, 210
      spying on citizens with modern technology, 60
      tools of better governance, 105-109
      Utah's IT blog, 75
      web-based documentation on, 52
grassroots journalism
      capitalizing on technological innovations, 160
      emergence of ethnic media with desktop publishing, 10
      ethical concerns with veracity and deception, 173
      legal decisions on legitimacy of journalists, 207
      online media that serve as news sources for others, 137
      peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and, 38
      problems with trolls, 182-184
      reporting on September 11, 2001, events, 18-22
      tools of, 25
Groklaw weblog, 139
Gross, Matthew, 96
group blogs, 115
group nodes, factorial, 161
"groupware tool set", 101
growth of technologies, laws governing, 159-162
Grubb, Tara Sue, 92
Guardian, The, 265
Gulf War (2003), coverage on Command Post, 147

H[ Top ]
hackers, divulging unauthorized product information on the Web, 53
hacking
      Apple iPod music players, disclosure of recording feature, 53
      definition of, 261
      improving electronic products or software, 53
Hall, Justin, 12
Hamidi, Kourosh Kenneth, 199
handheld devices, 26
Hartford Courant, 116
Healing Iraq weblog, 136
Hewlett-Packard, pledge to support copyright holders, 228
hidden cameras, use by news organizations, 35
high-speed data access in the U.S., future of, 226
Hoder (Iranian blogger), 141
Homeland Security Information Network, 107
Horgan, Dennis, 116
Hourihan, Meg, 20, 29
Houston Chronicle, 116
HTML
      definition of, 261
      development of, 12
      editing tools for, 23
Hypertext Markup Language (see HTML)
hypertext technology, invention of, 11

I[ Top ]
iCan project (BBC), 104, 123-125
images, doctored, 177
      digital watermarking as remedy for, 178
Indymedia (Independent Media Center), 145-148
information
      evaluating trustworthiness of, 171
      free access to, 211
      free flow of, 238
      movement around the Internet, tracking of, 212
      new architecture for, 42
      tracking with APIs and web services, 170
information technology (IT) blogs, Utah state government, 75
instant messaging, SMS as, 33
Instapundit weblog, 194
InstaPundit.com, 21
integrity, commitment to, 173
Intel
      exposure of Pentium bug by Usenet, 46
      Pentium processor bug, Usenet discussions of, 46
      suit against former employee for anti-Intel emails, 199
intellectual property rights, 201-203
"Interesting People" (mailing list), 19
interference problems, eliminating with modern equipment, 231
internal blogs or Wikis for corporations, 75
Internet
      broadcasting on, 36
      civil defense, using for, 108
      commercial, web browsers as basis of, 12
      development of, 11-14
      early days of, 8
      freedom of
            content blocking, 212
            end-to-end principle, 224
            tracking information movement on, 212
      as fund-raising tool
            Dean presidential campaign, 98-99
      as fundraising tool
            John McCain campaign, 2000, 92
      importance of, 236
      integral ingredient in future political campaigns, 102
      legal issues, 191-208
            copyrights, 201-204
            defamation and libel, 192-196
            forbidden links, 205-208
            jurisdiction, 197-199
      many-to-many and few-to-few communications, 26
      news radio via, 36
      open source software, use of, 16
      trustworthiness of content, 174
      video news programming on, 36
Internet bubble, stock price manipulation and, 179
Internet service providers
      dealing with demands for identities of subscribers, 195
      municipalities as, 226
investigative journalism
      Center for Public Integrity, 147
investment forums, online, 179
IP Mapping, 212
Iran, weblogs as sources of citizen journalism, 141
Iraq war coverage by Chris Allbritton blog, 156
Iraqi demonstrations, December 10, 2003, 136
Iraqi prisoner abuse (at Abu Ghraib), digital photos of, 48
Ito, Joi, 103

J[ Top ]
Jane's Intelligence Review, 110
Johnson, Steven, 26
Jones, Pamela, 139
journalism
      audience in charge as producers and consumers, 136-140
            alternative media, 144-148
            business models for, 152-157
            citizen journalists, 137-140
            evolutionary and revolutionary effects of, 140
            nonprofit community publishing, 142
            Wiki media, 148-151
      audience participation in, 120-123
            BBC, iCan project, 123-125
      camera-equipped mobile phones, implications of, 35
      collision with technology, consequences of, 237
      as conversation, 14
      corporate
            inadequate political coverage, 103
      education, changes needed in, 131-134
      history of
            corporate era, 4-7
            desktop publishing, 9
            web era, emergence of, 11-14
      in-depth reporting by citizen journalists, 139
      integrity of, grassroots journalism and, 173
      Internet broadcasting, radio and video, 36
      mail lists and forums, relevance of, 28
      media revolutions in U.S. history, 2
      niche journalism in politics, 103
      online discussions of the work of journalists, 61-64
      open source, 113
      open source technologies and, 17
      P2P (peer-to-peer), importance of, 37
      read-write web tools, 41-43
      RSS (content-syndication) technology, 38-41
      SMS, uses for, 33
      talk radio, 10
      terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 18-22
      video press releases as mockeries of, 184
      weblogs as democratic form of, 29
      Wikis, possible uses in, 32
journalists
      comprehensive list of blogs by and about, 114
      consequences of collision of journalism and technology, 237
      filtering information from automated tools, 164
      inviting audience contributions, 120-123
            BBC, iCan project, 123-125
            ethical standards, maintaining, 134-135
            new technologies, using, 130
            OhmyNews.com, 125-129
            updating journalism education, 131
      legal advice for, 193
      legitimacy of, copyright infringement and, 207
      misusing work of others, 200
      new communications technologies, using, 130
      political, changing role for, 102
      professional, successful weblogs by, 114
      watching, 61-64
Journal-World, 117
Junior Journal, 143
jurisdiction, 197-199
      increased efforts to zone Internet content, 198
      nations, 198
      repressive communities, giving to, 197
Justin's Links from the Underground, 12

K[ Top ]
Kerry, John, 177, 179
      Google bombers and, 185
King, Rodney, 35
Kirk, Russ, 52
Krebs, Valdis, 170
Kuro5hin (news site), 17, 146

L[ Top ]
Lascia, J.D., 154
law and cultural norms, hindering development of new media, 172
Lawrence.com, 117
Lebed, Jonathan, 56
legal blogs, 77
legal issues, online media, 191-208
      copyright infringement and plagiarism, comparing, 201
      copyrights, 201-204
      email and free speech, 199
      forbidden links, 205-208
      jurisdiction, 197-199
            increased efforts to zone Internet content, 198
      libel and defamation, 192-196
Lessig, Lawrence, 211, 212, 213, 240
Levine, Rick, 14
Lewis, Charles, 147
libel, 192-196
      bloggers, risks of, 194
      commenters on Internet forums, 195
      compliance with laws of all nations, 198
      insurance against, 193
      public figures and, 194
      weblog owner, not liable for comments by others, 194
linking, forbidden, 205-208
      to DeCSS code, 207
      Ticketmaster suit against Microsoft, 205
      Universal v. Reimerdes, 205
linking structure
      importance of, 168
      reputation evaluation with, 172
Linux, 16, 261
local communities, information needs of, 133
Locke, Christopher, 14
Lott, Trent, 44

M[ Top ]
Macintosh (see Apple Computer)
Macromedia, employee participation in blogs, 74
mailing lists, 27-28, 262
Manila application, 15
manipulating images to mislead viewers, 177
manufacturers, attempts to control information flow to customers, 54
manufacturing technology, effects on producers and consumers, 13
many-to-many communication, 26
      online, 161
Marburger, David L., 193
marketing
      influential weblogs, use of, 82-85
      online word-of-mouth marketing to create buzz about products, 186
      rules for using new media, 85
Marshall, Joshua, 44, 103, 157
mass media
      interface between Web and, 146
      threat posed by growing ownership concentration, 228
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's "News-in-the-Future" Consortium, 143
Mayfield, Ross, 151
McCain, John, 92
McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law (2002), 99
McDonald's Corp., legal battle against online activists, 50
McLaughlin, Janet, 83
McLuhan, Marshall, 13, 100, 108
McSpotlight web site, 51
media
      blurring of news producer/consumer distinction, 26
      creation of less expensive through computer technology, 9
media revolutions in U.S. history, 2
media transparency, trend toward, 61-64
Meeks, Brock, 191
Meetup web site, 95
Melrose Mirror, 142
Memory Hole web site, 52
messaging (see SMS)
metadata, dispersion of, 56
Metcalfe's Law, 160
microprocessors, 160
Microsoft
      Blogbot search tool, 167
      bogus advertisement of Mac-to-PC convert, 49
      employee bloggers, 74
            Robert Scoble, 76
      MSNBC, 166
      Newsbot, 166
      NewsJunkie, 166
      RSS feeds of MSDN articles, 41
      Slate online magazine, 112
      suit by Ticketmaster over deep links, 205
      Windows, emergence as dominant operating system, 15
MIDI standard, 264
misinformation spread with online media, 174
misquoted or misrepresented material, 175
mobile phones
      camera-equipped, 35
            privacy issues with, 35
      real-time field video interviews, recording, 131
      sending text messages over, 33
      SMS messaging, used to expose SARS epidemic, 47
"moblogging", 48
money raised for political elections (see fundraising on the Internet)
Moore's Law, 159
Mosaic web browsers, 12
Motallebi, Sina, 142
MoveOn.org, 100
MSDN (Microsoft Developers Network), RSS feeds of articles, 41
MSNBC, 166
muckrakers, 3
multimedia, addition to weblogs, 31
Murphy, Tom, 71
music
      beneficiary of computer technology, 9
      file-sharing, peer-to-peer, 37
      file-sharing web site (Napster), 37
      Internet radio, copyright regulations on, 36
MyDD.com, 96
MyYahoo! news page, 166

N[ Top ]
"nano-publishing", 152
Napster, 37
National Debate web site, 204
national security, Total Information Awareness program, 60
NBC News, partnership with Microsoft, 166
NetNewsWire, 39
new media, hindrances to development, 172
New Media Musings weblog, 154
New Times Media, 144
New York City, news and gossip weblog, 152
New York Times, The
      copyright infringement case against web site, 204
      newyorktimes.com domain, 202
      online forums, 112
      "Times on the Trail" column, 119
New York University, journalism education, 132
news
      dissemination with SMS, 266
      gathering and dissemination processes, audience participation in, 25
      making our own, 236-241
            creative commons, 239
            technical change, tracking, 240
      new architecture for, 42
      next steps, 158-173
            APIs and web services, 169-171
            creating the news, 162-164
            dinosaurs and dangers, 172
news
      next steps (continued)
            laws and other codes, 159-162
            reputation systems, 171
            sorting it out, 164-166
            syndication, growth of, 167
            tracking weblog and web site content, 168-169
      open source journalism and, 17
      open source software and, 16
      read-write web, technology making it possible, 23-43
      RSS "feeds" of, 39
      spreading by modern communications, 46
      talk radio and, 11
NewsGator (newsreader), 70
newsgroups, 8, 28
NewsJunkie application, 166
newsletters (email), RSS as replacement for, 82
newsmakers
      consequences of collision of journalism and technology, 237
      public life, new rules of, 46
      traditional control of news by, 45
      turning the tables, 66-87
            celebrity blogs, 78-80
            corporate blogging, 71-77
            Defense Department posting of interview transcripts, 66
            learning by listening, 69
            marketing on weblogs, 82-85
            PR industry, use of new technologies, 80-82
            rules for new media PR and marketing, 85
newspaper obituaries, 171
newspapers
      adoption of weblogs and interactive journalism, 117
      alternative, 144
      in history of journalism, 2
      online newspaper, OhmyNews.com, 93
      online, OhmyNews.com, 110
      SMS services offered by, 33
newsreaders, 39, 167
NewsTalk service (Technorati), 169
niche bloggers, 83
niche journalism in politics, 103
niche publishing, 152
Nicole, Kaycee, 187
nonprofit community publishing, 142
Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism, 133
number of groups factorial, 161
Nymox company, 195

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obituaries, GoogObits web service, 171
OhmyNews.com, 93, 110, 125-129
Olafson, Steve, 116
one-to-many communication, means of, 26
one-to-one communication, means of, 26
online discussions of the work of journalists, 61-64
online forums, 28
online services, early days of, 8
open source journalism, 113
      Kuro5hin news site, 146
      SCO case against free software community, 140
open source politics, 100
open source software, 16
      definition of, 262
      for non-profit organizations, 101
open source software programmers, volunteer efforts in Dean campaign, 101
operating systems
      APIs, 170
      definition of, 262
      free, development of, 16
overlay networks, 229
Ozzie, Ray, 72

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P2P (peer-to-peer), 37, 262
      Homeland Security Information Network, 107
"page-centric" web sites, 29
participatory political life, 100
peer-reviewed news sites, 17
Pentium processor (Intel), flaw in, 46
Pepsi iTunes giveaway, 47
Perot, Ross, 91
Persian-language weblogs, 141
personal computers, 7
personal digital assistants (PDAs), 26
personal journalism
      business models for, 152-157
            advertising support, 152
            nano-publishing, 152
            niche business blogs, (Weblogs, Inc.), 153
            soliciting money from readers, 155-157
      web pages, relative ease of creating, 12
personal publishing, 162
personal weblogs, 30
Pets 911, 106
Philippines government, role of technology in bringing down (2001), 91
phone cameras (see camera phones)
phone companies
      right to control access to new high-speed data pipes, 225
      vertical control over data transport and content, 225
photographing events in public places
      camera-equipped mobile devices, use of, 48
      terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 49
photographs, doctored, 177
      digital watermarking as remedy for, 178
plagiarism, 200
      comparing with copyright infringement, 201
      of online content, catching violators, 200
      students using online material in their papers, 200
Poindexter, John, 60
police misconduct, filming of, 49
politics, 88-109
      changing role for journalists, 102
      customer activism for free information, 229
      dominated by big money and media in 2004 campaigns, 90
      election of South Korean President, 2002, 93
      fringe politics on electronic bulletin boards, 9
      historical shift in 2002-2004 elections, 89
      history of online technologies use for political organization, 91
      inadequate coverage of issues by major media, 103
      Internet as fund-raising tool, 98-99
      Internet as integral campaign ingredient, 102
      local activists practicing grassroots journalism, 137
      Net-based campaigning and fundraising, 88
      open source, 100
      P2P, privacy of, 38
      role of technology in bringing down Philippines government, 2001, 91
      shakeup by Dean presidential campaign, 2004, 94
      talk radio and, 10
      Talking Points Memo political blog, 157
      tools of better governance, 105-109
      weblogs
            first serious use of in a campaign, 92
            model for best use of, 103
"portfolio model of journalism education", 132
"post-centric" weblogs, 29
postings (weblog), 29
Poynter Institute media blog, 62, 115
presidential campaigns
      George W. Bush, 2004 reelection campaign, 91
      Howard Dean, 2004, 59, 89, 94-99
      John Kerry, 2004, 177, 179
      John McCain, 2000, 92
      Ross Perot, 1992, 91
presidential campaigns (continued)
      South Korea, 2002, 93
      The Buying of the President 2004, 147
      tracking for 2004, Public Record Wiki, 151
press releases as news, spin and, 184
PressThink blog, 29
privacy
      camera-equipped mobile phones and, 35
      cookies and, 211
      invasion by American businesses, 211
      photographing of events in public places and, 49
      as relic of pre-technological time, 59
producers and consumers, effects of mass manufacturing on, 13
products
      customer exchange of information about, 52-55
            Apple iPod music players, 53
            automobile electronic systems, 54
            DishPlayer video recorder, 52
      customer information about, in-depth data, 55
      improving with expert assistance to companies from customers, 55
      interoperating through APIs, 169
      mentions of by bloggers, tracking with Feedster, 167
professions, weblogs by, 77
public journalism (see citizen journalists; citizen reporters; grassroots journalism)
public life, new rules of, 45
public message boards (Usenet), 8
public places, events photographed in, 48
public relations (PR)
      business use of blogging for, 71-77
      new technologies, use by industry, 80-82
      rules for using new media, 85
      video press releases as stain on the profession, 184
public service function of journalism, 3
public-health sphere, use of new communication tools, 108
publishing
      desktop publishing, emergence of, 9
      personal, 162
pump-and-dump schemers, manipulating stock prices, 179
purchasers, finding out more about products, 52

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radical political groups, use of electronic bulletin boards, 9
radio
      Internet, copyright regulations on, 36
      talk radio, development of, 10
radio waves, interference and, 233
radios, software-defined, 234
ransom-note media, 10
Rather, Dan, 178
reader comments on weblogs, 29
Really Simple Syndication (see RSS syndication)
Reed, David P., 224, 232
Reed's Law, 161
reference site, Wikipedia, 148-150
reputations, evaluation system for, 171
research, accumulation of data to back challenges, 50
return on investment (ROI), personal journalism, 152
Reynolds, Glenn, 21, 194
Rheingold, Howard, 34
Robb, John, 108
Roh, Moo Hyun, 93
Rojas, Peter, 84
Romenesko, Jim, 62, 115
Rosen, Jay, 29, 62, 132
Rosen, Zack, 101
RSS syndication, 38-41, 69
      company monitoring of product discussions, 70
      definition of, 262
      folded into MyYahoo! news page, 166
      marketing and PR, use for, 86
      overview of, 167
      public relations, use for, 81-82
      searches and results, organizing tools for, 41
Rumsfeld, Donald, 66

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Sacramento Bee, 114
Salon online magazine, 21, 207
San Francisco, demonstrations against Iraq war, 145
San Jose Mercury News, 115
SARS epidemic of 2003
      exposure of through SMS messaging, 47
      mobile phone company system to alert people entering buildings of SARS cases there, 56
satellite TV system, EchoStar, 59
satiric Internet content, copyright infringement and, 203
Saudi Arabia, pervasive controls on Internet content, 210
SBC Communications, partnership with Yahoo! for DSL customers, 227
scarcity of the airwaves, 231
      end of, 232
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 90
SCO Group, battle against free software community
      Linux operating system, legal battle over ownership of, 139
Scoble, Robert, 76
      manifesto for corporate bloggers, 76
Searls, Doc, 14, 58
secrecy
      breakdown of, 59
      threatening American freedom of speech, 142
server, 262
short message services (see SMS)
Sifry, Dave, 42, 168
SilverStringer software, 143
Sites, Kevin, 116
skilled professions, weblogs, 77
Slashdot, 29
      contributions to national security report on computer security and cyber-terrorism, 110
      exposure of Microsoft bogus ad featuring Mac-to-PC convert, 50
      trolls, dealing with, 182
Slate online magazine, 112
Smart Mobs, 34
SMS (short message services), 33, 69
      definition of, 262
      exposure of SARS epidemic through use of, 47
      role in future political campaigns, 102
      use in South Korean presidential campaign, 2002, 93
      uses of, 33
social software development projects for non-profit organizations, 101
social-networking software, 101
SocialText, 151
software
      blogging, evolution of, 31
      free, development of, 16
      improvement by hacking, 53
      open source, 16
software development, reliance on APIs, 170
source code, open, 16
source of information, considering, 179
South Korean presidential election, 2002, 93
spam
      email newsletters and, 82
      filtering of, content blocking and, 212
      PR contacts and, 81
spectrum
      ending regulation of, 233
      FCC continuing to give or auction to monopoly owners, 235
      regulation of, 231-232
spin, 184-186
      comments or postings that conceal author's connection to the subject, 185
      exposure as deterrent to, 186
      "Google bombing", 185
      media's use of press releases as news, 184
spreading news with modern communication tools, 46
spying by government on private citizens, 60
Stallman, Richard, 16
stock prices, manipulation of, 57, 178
Stone, I.F., 3
streaming radio and video over the Web, 146
Strollerqueen weblog, 83
Sullivan, Andrew, 155
Svenson, Ernest, 77
syndication of web content, 25, 69, 167
      RSS, 38-41

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talk radio, 10
      Net as progressive antidote to, 99
      web-based, 36
Talking Points Memo, 44
Talking Points Memo, 103
technology, laws of growth, 159-162
Technorati, 42, 168-169
      API for its software, 169
      links, gauging authority of a person by, 172
      services, 169
      Top 100 list (most popular sites on Web), 169
telecommunication companies
      vertical control over data transport and content, 225
      (see also cable and phone companies)
telegraph, effect on news collection and transmission, 2
television news
      CNN, effects on, 6
      elements of trickery in programming, 178
      politics and issues, sparse coverage of, 103
terrorism
      asymmetrical warfare, 107
      attacks of September 11, 2001, grassroots reporting on, 18-22
      computer security and cyber-terrorism, 110
      government proposal to detect suspicious activities with data-mining program, 60
text messages over cell phones (see SMS)
The Buying of the President 2004, 147
thoroughness, maintaining in interactive journalism, 134
Thurmond, Strom, 44
Ticketmaster, suit against Microsoft, 205
Timorese struggle for independence, 146
Toffler, Alvin, 13
tools for creating news, 162-164
Torvalds, Linus, 16
Total Information Awareness program, 60
tracking information with APIs and web services, 170
trade secrets
      DeCSS code, suit over posting of, 208
      discontinuing practice of, 58
trademarks, 201-203
travel guide, WikiTravel site, 150
Trippi, Joe, 94
trolls, 96, 114, 182-184
      deterrents to, 184
      how to detect on your site, 183
Trusted Computing initiative, 222
trustworthiness of information, evaluating, 171
trustworthiness of Internet content, 174
      anonymity on the Net, 180-182
            benefits of, 180
            hazards of, 180
      common sense analysis of sources and content, 189
      distorting meaning with cut-and-paste, 174
      fact checking by citizen reporters, 187
      gossip spread about John Kerry, 179
      intruder posting false news story on major media site, 189
      new ways to mislead, 177
      self-righting phenomenon, 187
      spin, 184-186
Turnitin software, 200

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Usenet, 8, 28
      Intel Pentium bug, exposure of, 46
UserLand Software, 15, 23
Utah's IT blog, 75

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video clips, filmed by journalists, 130
video news programming on the Internet, 36
video press releases, spin and, 184
videos
      digital watermarking of, 178
      doctored, increasing use of, 177
Village Voice Media, 144
voters, reminding to vote with SMS, 102

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Wales, Jimmy, 149
Wall Street
      analysts manipulating stock prices, 179
      manipulation of stock prices by online recommendations of it, 56
walled gardens, 226
warfare, asymmetrical, 107
Warner, Chris, 105
Washington, D.C., gossip weblog covering, 152
Washington Post
      online Q&A sessions, 112
      "White House Briefing", 119
Web
      discussion groups, finding unavailable information on, 53
      emergence of, 11-14
      interface with mass media, 146
      read-write, technology making it possible, 23-43
      Top 100 list, most popular sites, 169
      "World Live Web", 168-169
Web applications for non-profit organizations, 101
web browser, Mosaic, 12
web servers, use of open source software, 16
web services, 169-171
web site for this book, 25, 240
      RSS-related software, links to, 39
web sites
      corporate, nature of, 30
      glossary of, 253-259
      for political campaigns, future of, 102
web sites (continued)
      syndication of data from, 167
      user editing of content (Wikis), 32
web "streams", radio and video over, 146
weblogs, 25, 28-31, 69
      addition of multimedia to, 31
      advertising services for (Blogads), 154
      blogging software, 31
      business uses of, 30
      celebrity, 78-80
      Chinese government restrictions on access, 210
      citizen journalists, 137-140
            evolutionary and revolutionary effects, 140
      companies using
            employee participation, 74
      corporate, 71-77
            CEO blogs, 71-74
            internal blogs, 75
            Microsoft employees, 75
            policy for, 76
            restrictions on, 75
      criticism of contents as trivial and self-absorbed, 139
      DaveNet (Dave Winer), 15
      definition of, 29, 262
      as democratic form of journalism, 29
      early examples of, 12
      group, 115
      Healing Iraq site, 136
      influential, effects on purchasing decisions, 82-85
      Kaycee Nicole blog on illness and dying, 187
      libel risks for bloggers, 194
      marketing and PR, use for, 85
      niche journalism in politics, 103
      participation by company executives, 72-74
      personal, 30
      political, 88-109
            Ben Chandler campaign for U.S. Congress, 88
            first serious use of, 92
            future of, 102
            Howard Dean campaign blog, 96
            model for best use of, 103
            Talking Points Memo, 157
      postings as key unit of, 29
      Poynter Institute media blog, Jim Romenesko, 62
      PR Opinions, Tom Murphy, 71
      PressThink site, Jay Rosen, 62
      by professional journalists, 114-118, 237
            breaking news on, 115
            linking and listening to other sites, 118
            personal blogs, 116
      by professional journalists, most successful, 114
      read/write web, development of, 24
      reporting on terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, 18-22
      RSS (content syndication format), 38-41
      Scobleizer blog (Robert Scoble), 76
      Segway scooter, discussion of by Doc Searls, 58
      syndication of data from, 167
      talk radio as predecessor of, 11
      tools for creating, development of, 15
      tracking with Technorati, 168-169
      Trent Lott incident, 44
      trolls, 114
      Wi-Fi wireless networking, 83
      Wikis combined with, 151
Weblogs, Inc., 153
Weinberger, David, 14
Weintraub, Dan, 114
WhatIs.com, 32
Wheaton, Wil, 78-80
Wicked Good online forum, 186
Wi-Fi wireless networking, 83, 231
Wikipedia, 32, 148-150
Wikis, 23, 31, 148-151
      college course, use in, 32
      combined with a weblog, 151
      definition of, 262
      practicing access control, 150
      private, corporate and entrepreneurial, 32
      WikiTravel site, 150
Windley, Phil, 75, 105
Winer, Dave, 15, 23
wireless networking, 83
      Fleishmann blog on, 152
      opening up spectrum for, 234
Witt, Leonard, 265
Wonkette weblog, 152
Woodward, Bob, 66
WordPirates web site, 188
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), 202
World Trade Center, terrorist attacks on
      captured on video by private individuals, 49
World Wide Web, 11
writing on the Internet, 23

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Yahoo!
      demands by Nymox company for subscriber identities, 195
      French court order to block auction of Nazi memorabilia, 198
      MyYahoo! news page, 166
      partnership with SBC Communications for DSL customers, 227
Yahoo! Groups, 28, 101
"yellow journalism", 3

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Zeyad (Iraqi blogger), 136
Zittrain, Jonathan, 198
zoning Internet content, 198
zoning of the Internet, 212

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