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"As it turns out, we have a way to prevent gangs of humans from acting like savage packs of animals. In fact, we've developed entire disciplines based around this goal over thousands of years. We just ignore most of the lessons that have been learned when we create our communities online. But, by simply learning from disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event, we can come up with a set of principles to prevent the overwhelming majority of the worst behaviors on the Internet.
If you run a website, you need to follow these steps. if you don't, you're making the web, and the world, a worse place. And it's your fault. Put another way, take some goddamn responsibility for what you unleash on the world."
"This isn't a brilliant new insight. We have long known communities are powerful and that local media thrive when they bring together and serve their community. Somehow though when it comes to the challenge of online media, we forget this. We search for new business models that involve paywalls, more video, the iPad, and wealthy donors, while the most powerful emerging business driver in the new economy is community."
Found via a conference at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. College Newspapers could do this kind of thing.
A must-read for understanding the people who will be reading the media in the next century.
An up-to-date list of local citizen-media initiatives around the U.S. Quite a surprisingly long list.
A convenient (and probably out-of-date by the time you read this) list of all the "web 2.0" stuff that's out there - from MySpace to Backpackit to Skype. Hundreds to suft through.
A service that allows anyone to "annotate" the web - requires Firefox or IE right now. Read more <a href="http://reinventing.collegemedia.org/index.php?id=360">here</a>.
tutorials for "personal media" or "user-generated content. Ourmedia stores content created by the community as well.
The editor fo the News-Record discusses the efforts to include the community in their news organization.
37 signals, the company behind <a href="http://www.basecamphq.com">Basecamp</a> and other web 2.0 software, have a free version of this book, which deals with planning and creating web apps and sites.
Mark Briggs is writing a book about new media and journalism that is taking shape as a weblog. Might be a useful resource for some of your students.
Social media site that attempts to collect material based on geographic location. In early stages of development.
A List Apart article about hosting forums. Heard several questions at CMA St. Louis about keeping forums humming. This might be a place to start.
Web video gurus' presentation about creativity online. Free view.
Way too many conferences for one person to attend, but a good idea. Find out how many are related to the woes of the news industry.
A video community service that allows you to set up a page for community members to post their videos, and also gather videos from other services through search. Free.
PBS's Mark Glaser examines how videos end up in featured slots on the YouTube home page.
OJR roundup, with a few lessons for those of us who've been online for a while as well.
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