Much belatedly I'm posting our story from Friday on our partnership at The Vancouver Sun with NowPublic of the release of Vancouver's Most Public bloggers. The index calculates a variety of factors on posting, interactivity and community. UBC colleagues Alfred Hermida and David Beers are in the top 20, and the top local blogger is Darren Barefoot.
We'll be staging an event for everyone soon to talk about the future of news.
The lone Canadian presenter at Online News Association is Leonard Brody, CEO of NowPublic. He's talking about crowdsourced journalism and mobilizing the audience, eschews the term citizen journalism, and wants to create a fundamental breaking news channel online and to transform journalism into a two-way channel. |