Feed me Whiskey- “The Author as Producer” by Walter Benjamin
- “A Little Birdie Told Me” via The Toronto Star
- Indymedia.org by Dorothy Kidd
- “News Quality Differences in Online Newspaper and Citizen Journalism Sites” by Serena Carpenter
- Panopticism as explained by Michel Foucault
- G2: Life Through a Lens” via The Guardian
- Photos of Gang Rape go Viral” via the Globe and Mail
- The Crisis of Journalism and the Internet
- In Praise of Scribes
- Dr. Gonzo or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Bias, and Love the Slant
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In Praise of Scribes
“OUR SOCIAL TOOLS REMOVE OLDER OBSTACLES TO PUBLIC EXPRESSION, AND THUS REMOVE THE BOTTLENECKS THAT CHARACTERIZED MASS MEDIA. THE RESULT IS THE MASS AMATEURIZATION OF EFFORTS PREVIOUSLY RESERVED FOR MEDIA PROFESSIONALS.” Recently I read Chapter 3 of Clay Shirky’s 2008 … Continue reading
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THE WHISKEY DIARY 