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'community of storytellers'

Cowbird - A witness to life (About)

Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events and universal themes. Our long-term goal is to build a public library of human experience, so the knowledge and wisdom we accumulate as individuals may live on as part of the commons, available for this and future generations to look to for guidance.

Posted by jenett on 12/09/11

#OWS aggregator

Occupationalist

Occupationalist is an impartial and real-time view of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Covering history as it unfolds. No filters. No delays.

Posted by jenett on 11/26/11

'fragility of the system'

Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS readers that sync
Posted by jenett on 10/28/11

'feed reader with intelligence'

NewsBlur
Posted by jenett on 10/25/11

buzzwords in the news

Newswordy: Word of the day

Beware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.

Posted by jenett on 06/28/11

social journalism

storyful

Storyful uses the power of social networks to create an authentic, cooperative and socially useful journalism.

Posted by jenett on 04/23/11

html5 news experiment

Timeline Reader - AP Labs
Posted by jenett on 10/23/10

'Global Peace Index'

Vision of Humanity
Posted by jenett on 08/18/10

exposing 'sloppy journalism'

Journalism Warning Labels
Posted by jenett on 08/16/10

another hyperlocal effort

Raise the Hammer

Raise the Hammer is a group of Hamilton, Ontario citizens who believe in our city's potential and are willing to get involved in making the city a more vibrant, livable, and attractive place to live and work.

Posted by jenett on 05/12/10

'to promote global awareness'

SocialDocumentary.net (some commercial content)
[Perspectives]
Posted by jenett on 02/14/10

'new' vs 'old' media


right2link
Posted by jenett on 01/19/10

WTF?

Opinion Mart pop-ups are annoying many on the web and it appears that BBC's news site has just started to impose these pop-ups on its users (at least, here in the U.S.). Shame on you BBC!
Posted by jenett on 12/21/09

'Internet'

We're removing all links to Pew Internet articles – many are 404.

not-so-credible source

Posted by jenett on 11/01/09

big stats, dumb headline

One billion a day turn to YouTube

YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder of the website.

Impressive stats, but a billion hits is not the same as a billion visitors, silly!

Posted by jenett on 10/10/09

'misguided' indeed

Associated rePress

A tribute to "fair use" and the AP's misguided crusade against the hyperlink. All content on this site was generated automatically from the AP's own RSS feeds. (Sorry, we forgot to include your magic DRM beans.)

Posted by jenett on 07/24/09

as useful as lint

Doomwatch
Posted by jenett on 07/11/09

BBC don't like your looks!

What they said before deleting the article:

You're haired: "Would you employ her - piercings, tats, dreads 'n' all?"

Note: Article, as it reappeared on 6/25/09:
Could this woman get a job in your office?

Posted by jenett on 06/24/09

'America Under Construction'

Infrastructurist

Beware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.

Posted by jenett on 05/25/09

'current events and news'

LISNews | Librarian And Information Science News
Posted by jenett on 01/19/09

international photojournalism

Photo Gallery: 2008 -- The Year in Photos
Posted by jenett on 01/02/09

tracking UK journalists

journalisted.com – "an independent, non-commercial website built to help the public navigate the news" [preoccupations]

Beware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.

Posted by jenett on 12/24/08

how it works

A Day In The Life Of A Small Time Technology Blogger – "Rejoice! You've hit the small time!"
Posted by jenett on 08/29/08

'intellectual pulse'

Polymeme
[Ireneo's Memory]
Posted by jenett on 08/11/08

List: News/Talk Radio

Some Stations:

  • NPR (National Public Radio)
  • MIR (Michigan Radio)
  • WNYC (New York Public Radio)

An alternative media player:
XMPlay

Posted by jenett on 08/02/08

opening access to archives*

NPR API is Live on NPR.org

*some content excluded (see follow-up)

Posted by jenett on 07/16/08

de-scent those pet skunks

10 things we didn't know last week – "Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience." [BBC Magazine]
Posted by jenett on 05/26/08

'minimalist data visualization'

The Falling Times

Beware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.

Posted by jenett on 05/04/08

'file... under unreal'

Blogger loses day job with CNN over blogging
Posted by jenett on 02/13/08

here's your proof...

Clarkson stung after bank prank

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.

The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs.

He wanted to prove the story was a fuss about nothing...

Posted by jenett on 01/07/08

'2007: the stories'

Wikinews' overview of the year 2007
Posted by jenett on 01/01/08

'most read'

Most popular stories of 2007
Posted by jenett on 12/31/07

'Google decided to pull the plug'

Help me save Newsmap!
[Modcult]
Posted by jenett on 11/16/07

on news and ethics

Legal and moral questions
Posted by jenett on 11/01/07

social news aggregation

pckrt experiment – "you group related stories together" [swikiri]
Posted by jenett on 08/18/07

quirky news

BBC: Also in the news – "Odd and surprising stories from around the world" [plasticbag.org]
Posted by jenett on 06/01/07

'crowd powered media'

nowpublic
Posted by jenett on 05/02/07

List: RSS Feeds

List of Library of Congress RSS Feeds
Posted by jenett on 03/07/07

'virtual news show'

Northwestern Infolab: News At Seven
[Ireneo's Memory]
Posted by jenett on 10/27/06

"citizens' media project"

Global Voices Online
[frizzyLogic]
Posted by jenett on 03/06/06

'blog bashing'

Local newspaper displeased with blogs
Posted by jenett on 12/16/05