Echo Chamber: Partisan Attack or Journalistic Process?
As I reflect on how this documentary started and where it has ended up, I notice how much it has evolved. I have been writing up synopses and talking to a number of people about the project, and I...
View ArticleIntegral Journalism -- Combining the Objective and Subjective
There are flaws with a purely "objective" press as well as a purely partisan press.Objective mainstream journalism relies upon the government institutions and other official government sources -- but...
View ArticleNew Advisor -- Dr. Andrew R. Cline
The Echo Chamber Project has secured its first advisor from the Academic world. Dr. Andrew R. Cline is an assistant professor of journalism at Southwest Missouri State University and a specialist in...
View ArticleEstablishing Institutional Authority in the Blogosphere
Atrios had an insightful post yesterday into the psychology of blog linking called "You Link It, You Own It."the less something you link to has the stamp of official authority, the more you've taken...
View ArticleOpen Source Documentary Integrates Filmmaking with the Internet
WINTERPORT, ME, Jan.18 -- Independent documentary filmmaker Kent Bye is combining the filmmaking and Internet mediums by using the principles of open source content development. Working out of the...
View ArticleHarvard Conference on Journalism & Blogging
There's a big "Blogging, Journalism & Credibility" conference at Harvard that starts tomorrow. A lot of bloggers and journalists with institutional affiliations are going to be talking about a lot...
View ArticleSynthesizing Blogging & Journalism Conference
I've been listening to the live webcast of the Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference at Harvard.I'm actually trying to implement some of the theories that the participants are talking about...
View ArticleTransparency vs. Off-the-Record
One of the big themes of the Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference was Transparency and Full Disclosure.As a documentary filmmaker and an independent journalist, one issue that I deal with...
View ArticleBrainstorming Ideas from Blog Conference
I wrote down a list of useful ideas and concepts that were mentioned at the Harvard Blogging & Journalism Conference today. I would like to implement as many of the following ideas as I...
View ArticleA Message to High School Students
My high school picked me as an alumni of the month for Feburary, and they are setting up a display case where they want me to send some awards and other things about me. But instead of doing this, I've...
View ArticleDirector's Thoughts on Iraq War & Election
I thought that it would be appropriate to comment on what I thought about the Iraqi elections as well as my personal views on the war in Iraq. What does Iraq's election mean for this documentary, and...
View ArticleDiscussion with Transparent Journalist David Berlind
This David Weinberger post directed me to ZDNet's executive editor David Berlind's Media Transparency Channel.Berlind is attempting make the process of journalism more transparent by posting the...
View ArticleActivist Technology M16 Meeting after SxSW
I was invited to a gathering of Activists & Technologists on March 16th at the Ventana del Soul Internet Cafe in Austin after the last day of the SXSW Interactive...
View ArticlePhase 11: Solicit Feedback for Final Editing Phases
Keywords * Collaborative Content Development * Volunteer Feedback * Media TransparencyContextThe eventual distribution model and business plan for The Echo Chamber documentary will determine the full...
View ArticlePhase 05: Use Collected Information to Inform Documentary Editing
Keywords * Collaborative Content Development * Media Transparency * Exporting Data from Drupal * Open Source Business PlanIntention * Develop a formal thematic taxonomy for the documentary that is...
View ArticlePhase 02: Coalition Building
Keywords: * Citizen Journalism Toolkit * Media Reform * Community of Practice * Open Source Business Plan * Symbiotic Relationships * Ideological, Racial and Gender DiversityIntention: * Provide...
View ArticleExpanding from Windows into Cafes and Bridges
Now that I have this site Drupalized, I can now start treating it as a cafe and not just a window into the project. Blogger Hossein Derakhashan talks about blogs being a window into a community, a...
View ArticleInstructions for Dr. Cline
Hey Andy, I started to respond to your e-mail, and then I decided to continue this conversation on the ECP site.Now that I have Drupal up, we can start communicating more on the site. I wrote a blog...
View ArticleBridging the Technology & Filmmaking Gap
My wife just asked me why I'm posting so many details about the mundane day-to-day stuff that I'm dealing with.The first reason is for transparency sake -- Sometimes I'm debugging a problem and the...
View ArticleAnother blog documentary coming down the pipe
Steve Rubel has been asked to participate in a documentary film about bloggers done by a career film industry guy named John Hart. Rubel says that the 59 chosen bloggers that Hart plans on interviewing...
View ArticleCitizen Journalism Implications of Blog Doc Controversy
(UPDATE 6/7/05 6:08p.m. -- John Hart has posted a public reply on his website, and I'm a bit speechless. It is certainly not a very rational response to the whole situation. Below were my thoughts on...
View ArticleThe Origins of The Echo Chamber Project
Dr. Cline asked me to give him some more background information as to the events leading up to why I decided to start The Echo Chamber documentary project for a paper he's working on.I told a lot of...
View ArticleA Flood of Downing Street E-mail Alerts
I've been flooded this week with e-mail notices about the upcoming Downing Street Memo Congressional hearings being held tomorrow initiated by Representative John Conyers (D-MI).I think it's...
View ArticleNew Media Blogs Discuss Downing Street Memos
A discussion of the Downing Street Memos has kicked up briefly in the New Media blogosphere after Jay Rosen's post on Sunday.I thought I'd drop a few signposts from my daily blog surfing from this...
View ArticleWhy I Want to Help Innovate Open Media
I asked some of my volunteer transcribers to tell me some of the reasons why they're helping with this project, and a lot of their responses shows that they are largely driven their concerns about the...
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