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Reconsidering Carr’s citizen journalism essay

By Michael Becker | Published: November 17, 2009
A few days ago, I posted an excerpt from a TechCrunch arti­cle by Paul Carr, who argues that cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism — which he partly asso­ciates with the urge to grab a cam­era phone instead of try­ing to help — is noth­ing but ego­tism bor­der­ing on a detach­ment from human­ity. “As long as we’re all los­ing [...]
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Citizen journalism has a cost

By Michael Becker | Published: November 7, 2009
Normally, I’m pretty gung-ho for social media and cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism. I really do believe that jour­nal­ism isn’t some high-and-mighty, elit­ist pro­fes­sion. Real peo­ple with drive and curios­ity can report news and write analy­sis, regard­less of their educations. As such, cit­i­zen report­ing is a good thing because I gen­er­ally think “the more infor­ma­tion to work with, [...]
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Twitter without a follower count?

By Michael Becker | Published: April 16, 2009
A great idea, one of the best I’ve heard in a while. Twitter, at its core, is sup­posed to be about com­mu­ni­ca­tion, not your fol­lower count. A cou­ple of years ago when the num­ber of Twitter users only reg­is­tered in the thou­sands, a user would tweet some­thing out and maybe only a dozen other peo­ple would [...]
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Rumor has it

By Michael Becker | Published: February 24, 2009
A few days ago, TechCrunch ran a story about Last.fm, say­ing that the com­pany had turned over user infor­ma­tion to the RIAA. The story, as ini­tially pub­lished, was based on a sin­gle, third-party source. It labeled as a rumor when pub­lished, and the reporter tried to get a sub­stan­tive com­ment from Last.fm and its owner, [...]
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Apple may release jumbo iPod Touch this fall

By Michael Becker | Published: December 30, 2008
TechCrunch has it from sev­eral sources inside Apple that the com­pany is plan­ning on launch­ing an iPod Touch-like device this fall that has a 7– or 9-inch screen. I want one already.
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