Fifth Estate Best Practices and Democracy

Fifth Estate Best Practices and Democracy
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday
August 17
Title
Truth Seeker
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Fellow Citizens
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The Fifth Estate extends from the blogosphere to the community and the ways participants hold the powers accountable. The Fourth Estate, the media, held some of that responsibility, but communications is now more in the hands of the people. So how can the Fifth Estate use the best of Fourth Estate with new challenges faced by community and social media? Compelling stories will showcase technological innovations and where there are concerns about best practices needs. Stories reach from the regular user to business to government, policy and law.

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JULY 14, 2010 2:32AM

If Blogging is Dying, Then Why?

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Pew Research says that 99 percent of all news stories are generated from blogs.  What will the news reporters do if blogging is dying?

 

Yes, the Economist is speculating that blogging is dying.  News reporters may now have to search Facebook Walls, the Digg and Twitter for stories.  The Economist story entitled, “An Empire Gives Way,” says that the rate of growth of blogs has slowed down or stalled in many parts of the world.

 

Seems people now like messages that are shorter and quicker, The Economist says.  http://www.economist.com/node/16432794?story_id=16432794"  

 

Plus, blogging is hard on the blogger, too.  Like a diary, one must the habit of feeding the monster with brand new stories every day.

 

If I were to predict, I would say that all of these forms of online writing will too follow the demise of blogging.  Location based media is the next big thing.  Instead of blogging, FourSquare and more will have people meeting in open space like they used to do.

 

The world will go full circle.  People will begin to talk face to face again.


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people actually meeting and talking......that sure sounds like community building and empowerment...something we need
siochaina
July 14, 2010 03:04 AM
Siochaina, if you hit "back to posts" in blue above, you can read the blog title about FourSquare inviting people to be robbed. Getting back to face to face meetings means some kinks need to be worked out
Fifth Estate Best Practices and Democracy
July 14, 2010 09:33 AM
It would be interesting to consider whether the short, quick-hit kind of posts people seem to be moving toward could be combined or gathered in a loose way to stimulate something like "crowd-sourcing". Perhaps a new kind of news-gathering hierarchy will form--people posting snippets of raw news or information, and others making their names because they are able to gather and make sense of the various snippets the best, interpreting for the general online readership.
smac555
July 14, 2010 05:31 PM
Hi, Smac555, Yes, crowd-sourcing is important because more people would have a voice and a sense of community. Imagine the possibilities of doing this without technology. I am reminded of a story told to me by the proprietor of the King George Inn -- which is still a functioning establishment in PA. In colonial days, the men gathered in the bar and drank so much beer, they would relieve themselves in troughs under the bar near their feet, and then wipe their hands on nearby dogs in the bar. (I had to share that! ;) Look at the nation these men were able to build! Today people can crowd-source via FourSquare and meet at locations where womenfolk are allowed. Unfortunately, this won't elevate investigative journalism much, which requires detail work and is most effective when it reaches millions of viewers at the same time.
Fifth Estate Best Practices and Democracy
July 16, 2010 12:37 AM
Do you mean to say people have faces? I had forgotten... ;-)
Natalie K. Munden
August 06, 2010 01:08 AM
Lol! I went to one of those meetings tonight. It was funny watching people squint and wipe the sand out of their eyes. There's hope yet!
Fifth Estate Best Practices and Democracy
August 07, 2010 03:41 AM