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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

H resources We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People by Dan gillmor (O'Reilly Media, 2004) "What industry is among the least transparent? Journalism." If you doubt that citizen media is overtaking big media—or that this is a good thing—you won't after reading nationally known journalist Gillmor's treatise on the rise of amateur reportage. gillmor uses case studies and personal anecdotes to trace the emergence of and implications of citizen media; he offers a thorough primer on the tools available to citizen journalists, from blogs to wikis.

Though the traditional publishing world was slow to comprehend the blog world, the journalists who were early adopters saw in blogs the potential to democratize and transform media. Dan gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News was one of the first journalists to create a blog and regularly post new entries. gillmor began to see the Internet as a foundation for a new kind of citizen media, produced by individual bloggers operating independently and creating blogs with RSS feeds. What RSS amounts to is a format for syndicating blog content; it is available with most, if not all, blog applications.

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The legal changes proposed by Representative Paul gillmor, Republican of Ohio, to conform U.S. law with the requirements of the POPS treaty were paired with the elimination of a state's ability to impose more stringent limits on POPS chemicals than those agreed to at the federal level. This amounted to a direct strike at the evolving trend among state governments to fill the void left by the Bush administration's inaction on environmental protection.25 That includes PBDEs, which have already been banned in several states, including California, Washington, and Maine. Nor was the U.S.

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Moreover, gillmor urges corporate media and corporations to embrace and collaborate with citizen media outlets —not fight against them. He offers advice to corporate media participants and lays out new rules of conduct for everyone from PR flacks to CEOs: "Make sure your Web site has everything a journalist might need ... Post or link to what your people say publicly, and to what is said about you. When your CEO or other top official gives an interview, transcribe it and post in on the Web site. If it's an interview being broadcast, put the audio or video online as well ...

Journalist, blog-ger, and author of We the Media Dan gillmor tackles the issue of journalistic credibility and standards. Journalist Mark Glaser offers tips on how to "make your blog shine." French Internet consultant Olivier Andrieu contributes a discussion on search-engine visibility. The most inspiring aspect of the Handbook are the "Personal Accounts," short essays from bloggers around the world about why they blog and why blogging matters. German blogger Markus Beckedahl of Netzpoli-tik.

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