Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Cell phones: A new tool in the war-zone blogosphere
By Marsha Walton
CNN
Published: 8/1/2006
Excerpt:
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Pundits and political junkies may have put blogs on the map. But now individuals all over the planet are using new blogging tools to share gritty, uncensored information.
"If you see a car bomb blast, your first thought is not to go to an
Internet cafe and start blogging," said digital media expert Erik
Sundelof. ...
... Sundelof is the creator of
"Lebanon-Israel Conflict Via Cell Phones," a blog that is different
from the tens of thousands of web logs sharing facts, opinions,
pictures and often unfettered anger about events in the Middle East and
elsewhere.
"What this is really creating is a way for normal people to tell
their perspective," said Sundelof, who is working in the Reuters
Digital Vision Program at Stanford University in California. ...
... Unlike the mainstream media, also known and often maligned among
bloggers as MSM, blogs do not always have the same reliability as
established news organizations."Journalism is about firsthand
information. The Associated Press is credible, CNN is credible. If
they're not, they will ultimately go out of business," said Howard
Finberg, director of interactive learning at the Poynter Institute, a
training institute for journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida.
But
with blogs and some other new forms of media, "there's no foolproof
method, and I'm not sure we will ever find a way of proving it is for
real or not," said Finberg.
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