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Wikinews, the news wing of the user-generated Wikimedia empire, has begun distributing its PDF version through Apple's iTunes. The PDF is derived from Wikinews' Print Edition which combines the day's top stories on a webpage that users can print at their leisure. Wikinews also offers an RSS feed which users can use to receive their daily PDF, but the popularity of iTunes could increase its reach.

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You're not going to like this, but your readers might. According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' keynote speech at the First International Wikimania conference, the ethos of the rapidly growing Wiki community is 'free.' Wales listed ten challenges for the 'free culture movement' from 'Free the encyclopedia' to 'Free the TV listings.' Although he did not list 'Free the news' as one of the ten points, Wikinews, launched last December, combined with the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, have immediate consequences for newspapers currently revamping their business models to deal with the digital era. Wikinews still does not pose a serious threat to newspaper organizations as many of the articles posted are summaries of what Wiki contributors read in newspapers. But such Wiki projects have the potential to infringe on a disputed aspect of newspaper websites; archives. Many papers have been toying with charging for their online archives and developing different packages to offer to their readers. Wikis could theoretically render these projects null and void even before they get off the ground as Wiki articles, comprehensive collective intelligence accounts of world facts and occurrences, include various opinions, both sides of a story taken from different journals, and even many quotes found in newspaper articles... for free, forever. The permanence of Wikis as well as blogs should make newspapers reconsider charging readers for their archives. They may be better off adapting a method of topic-specific, time relevant advertising that would appear on an archived article page.

You're not going to like this, but your readers might. According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' keynote speech at the First International Wikimania conference, the ethos of the rapidly growing Wiki community is 'free.' Wales listed ten challenges for the 'free culture movement' from 'Free the encyclopedia' to 'Free the TV listings.' Although he did not list 'Free the news' as one of the ten points, Wikinews, launched last December, combined with the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, have immediate consequences for newspapers currently revamping their business models to deal with the digital era. Wikinews still does not pose a serious threat to newspaper organizations as many of the articles posted are summaries of what Wiki contributors read in newspapers. But such Wiki projects have the potential to infringe on a disputed aspect of newspaper websites; archives. Many papers have been toying with charging for their online archives and developing different packages to offer to their readers. Wikis could theoretically render these projects null and void even before they get off the ground as Wiki articles, comprehensive collective intelligence accounts of world facts and occurrences, include various opinions, both sides of a story taken from different journals, and even many quotes found in newspaper articles... for free, forever. The permanence of Wikis as well as blogs should make newspapers reconsider charging readers for their archives. They may be better off adapting a method of topic-specific, time relevant advertising that would appear on an archived article page.

You're not going to like this, but your readers might. According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' keynote speech at the First International Wikimania conference, the ethos of the rapidly growing Wiki community is 'free.' Wales listed ten challenges for the 'free culture movement' from 'Free the encyclopedia' to 'Free the TV listings.' Although he did not list 'Free the news' as one of the ten points, Wikinews, launched last December, combined with the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, have immediate consequences for newspapers currently revamping their business models to deal with the digital era. Wikinews still does not pose a serious threat to newspaper organizations as many of the articles posted are summaries of what Wiki contributors read in newspapers. But such Wiki projects have the potential to infringe on a disputed aspect of newspaper websites; archives. Many papers have been toying with charging for their online archives and developing different packages to offer to their readers. Wikis could theoretically render these projects null and void even before they get off the ground as Wiki articles, comprehensive collective intelligence accounts of world facts and occurrences, include various opinions, both sides of a story taken from different journals, and even many quotes found in newspaper articles... for free, forever. The permanence of Wikis as well as blogs should make newspapers reconsider charging readers for their archives. They may be better off adapting a method of topic-specific, time relevant advertising that would appear on an archived article page.

Cyberjournalist has posted a link to the OhmyNews International's first Citizen Reporters' Forum held in Seoul, South Korea from June 23 to 26. Highlights include Dr. Oh's introductory address, a Wikinews presentation and a whole lot of citizen journalism discussion. The site gives a good idea of what the conference was like with PDF downloads, speech summaries and comments.

Source: Cyberjournalist

Cyberjournalist has posted a link to the OhmyNews International's first Citizen Reporters' Forum held in Seoul, South Korea from June 23 to 26. Highlights include Dr. Oh's introductory address, a Wikinews presentation and a whole lot of citizen journalism discussion. The site gives a good idea of what the conference was like with PDF downloads, speech summaries and comments.

Source: Cyberjournalist

After the excellent sessions, I was lucky enough to land an invitation to to visit the newsroom of OhMyNews and hear from founder Yeon Ho Oh about his marvelous citizen media experiment.

Some quick scribbles on the laptop:

Mr. Oh defines OhMyNews as a "Massively distributed collaborative news operation on the web"

June 1 (Today!) he has updated his site to include participatory EDITING and RANKING as well.

New definition: Massively distributed collaborative editorial participation on the web

Think = OHMYNEWS + WikiNews . . . Hmmm - very smart guy.

So - readers today have a choice between a version of the reports edited by the professional-trained OH My editing staff OR a version of the site where stories are being ranked (by aggregate vote) by readers.

OH MY, indeed,

It is designed to be a 'playground for readers'

"Straight news is not the standard." Writing craft is not as important as the news value or opinions of the contributors. Most reports are essays, columns, opinions, facts, alerts, reviews and criticism.

And who are these rebel amateurs?

"Tech-savvy, youth, professional, educated, liberals fostering a social revolution largely because they are unhappy with conservative reporting by mainstream media." In Korea - the conservative media dominates.

And why Korea? Over 90 percent of citizens age 10-40 are internet users - a total of 33 million users.

Korea enjoys over 80 percent broadband integration.

Korea is an interconnected, small society.

Korean keyboard allows for real time typing - very simple - as fast as talking. so not difficult to transmit live text reports from the scene of breaking news.

Oh, and the good news is that they actually produce a weekly pulp edition of their best stories.

Posted by Robb Montgomery

After the excellent sessions, I was lucky enough to land an invitation to to visit the newsroom of OhMyNews and hear from founder Yeon Ho Oh about his marvelous citizen media experiment.

Some quick scribbles on the laptop:

Mr. Oh defines OhMyNews as a "Massively distributed collaborative news operation on the web"

June 1 (Today!) he has updated his site to include participatory EDITING and RANKING as well.

New definition: Massively distributed collaborative editorial participation on the web

Think = OHMYNEWS + WikiNews . . . Hmmm - very smart guy.

So - readers today have a choice between a version of the reports edited by the professional-trained OH My editing staff OR a version of the site where stories are being ranked (by aggregate vote) by readers.

OH MY, indeed,

It is designed to be a 'playground for readers'

"Straight news is not the standard." Writing craft is not as important as the news value or opinions of the contributors. Most reports are essays, columns, opinions, facts, alerts, reviews and criticism.

And who are these rebel amateurs?

"Tech-savvy, youth, professional, educated, liberals fostering a social revolution largely because they are unhappy with conservative reporting by mainstream media." In Korea - the conservative media dominates.

And why Korea? Over 90 percent of citizens age 10-40 are internet users - a total of 33 million users.

Korea enjoys over 80 percent broadband integration.

Korea is an interconnected, small society.

Korean keyboard allows for real time typing - very simple - as fast as talking. so not difficult to transmit live text reports from the scene of breaking news.

Oh, and the good news is that they actually produce a weekly pulp edition of their best stories.

Posted by Robb Montgomery

After the excellent sessions, I was lucky enough to land an invitation to to visit the newsroom of OhMyNews and hear from founder Yeon Ho Oh about his marvelous citizen media experiment.

Some quick scribbles on the laptop:

Mr. Oh defines OhMyNews as a "Massively distributed collaborative news operation on the web"

June 1 (Today!) he has updated his site to include participatory EDITING and RANKING as well.

New definition: Massively distributed collaborative editorial participation on the web

Think = OHMYNEWS + WikiNews . . . Hmmm - very smart guy.

So - readers today have a choice between a version of the reports edited by the professional-trained OH My editing staff OR a version of the site where stories are being ranked (by aggregate vote) by readers.

OH MY, indeed,

It is designed to be a 'playground for readers'

"Straight news is not the standard." Writing craft is not as important as the news value or opinions of the contributors. Most reports are essays, columns, opinions, facts, alerts, reviews and criticism.

And who are these rebel amateurs?

"Tech-savvy, youth, professional, educated, liberals fostering a social revolution largely because they are unhappy with conservative reporting by mainstream media." In Korea - the conservative media dominates.

And why Korea? Over 90 percent of citizens age 10-40 are internet users - a total of 33 million users.

Korea enjoys over 80 percent broadband integration.

Korea is an interconnected, small society.

Korean keyboard allows for real time typing - very simple - as fast as talking. so not difficult to transmit live text reports from the scene of breaking news.

Oh, and the good news is that they actually produce a weekly pulp edition of their best stories.

Posted by Robb Montgomery

After the excellent sessions, I was lucky enough to land an invitation to to visit the newsroom of OhMyNews and hear from founder Yeon Ho Oh about his marvelous citizen media experiment.

Some quick scribbles on the laptop:

Mr. Oh defines OhMyNews as a "Massively distributed collaborative news operation on the web"

June 1 (Today!) he has updated his site to include participatory EDITING and RANKING as well.

New definition: Massively distributed collaborative editorial participation on the web

Think = OHMYNEWS + WikiNews . . . Hmmm - very smart guy.

So - readers today have a choice between a version of the reports edited by the professional-trained OH My editing staff OR a version of the site where stories are being ranked (by aggregate vote) by readers.

OH MY, indeed,

It is designed to be a 'playground for readers'

"Straight news is not the standard." Writing craft is not as important as the news value or opinions of the contributors. Most reports are essays, columns, opinions, facts, alerts, reviews and criticism.

And who are these rebel amateurs?

"Tech-savvy, youth, professional, educated, liberals fostering a social revolution largely because they are unhappy with conservative reporting by mainstream media." In Korea - the conservative media dominates.

And why Korea? Over 90 percent of citizens age 10-40 are internet users - a total of 33 million users.

Korea enjoys over 80 percent broadband integration.

Korea is an interconnected, small society.

Korean keyboard allows for real time typing - very simple - as fast as talking. so not difficult to transmit live text reports from the scene of breaking news.

Oh, and the good news is that they actually produce a weekly pulp edition of their best stories.

Posted by Robb Montgomery

The technology behind Wikinews and Wikipedia known as wiki web pages is now open to anyone with internet access. Wikinews allows citizen journalists to report news independently and collaboratively and Wikipedia provides an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. For those that collaborate electronically on professional or personal projects, CNN reports on a recent technology trend that allows anyone to publicly store information through the internet on web pages called Wikis. Rather than continuously working through correspondence by emails attached with differing versions of documents in progress, collaborators can now work on documents and save the changes through the web even without knowing html.
Serial entrepreneur Joe Kraus founded a new Palo Alto based company in California called JotSpot Inc that provides the service of wikis, giving anyone the power to edit a web page. Through a wiki users can find and share commonly worked on documents from any computer with internet access. No information is ever lost amongst users, as revisions are tracked and archived.

The technology behind Wikinews and Wikipedia known as wiki web pages is now open to anyone with internet access. Wikinews allows citizen journalists to report news independently and collaboratively and Wikipedia provides an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. For those that collaborate electronically on professional or personal projects, CNN reports on a recent technology trend that allows anyone to publicly store information through the internet on web pages called Wikis. Rather than continuously working through correspondence by emails attached with differing versions of documents in progress, collaborators can now work on documents and save the changes through the web even without knowing html.
Serial entrepreneur Joe Kraus founded a new Palo Alto based company in California called JotSpot Inc that provides the service of wikis, giving anyone the power to edit a web page. Through a wiki users can find and share commonly worked on documents from any computer with internet access. No information is ever lost amongst users, as revisions are tracked and archived.