Friday, May 30, 2003

Post-blog Rupert Goodwins over at ZDNet is covering a media revolution happening not in the US or Europe, but in Asia. South Korea--which counts among its achievements being one of the highest percentage of broadband users in the world--has for 4 years been sucessfully experimenting with it's own form of post-media. Even better than the blogs--which allow anyone with a browser and an Internet connection to publish--OhmyNews has a regular staff of journalists who cull stories submitted by average folk, publishing a large percentage of them online and in the weekly print edition. The core staff augments contributions with articles of their own, but the topics of interest and the significant leads often come from the ordinary people on the street who happened to send in a story. And as Mr. Goodwins points out, OhymyNews doesn't "abdicate the important editorial principle of filtering and ranking the news--somewhere that other online quasi-journalistic phenomena such as blogs fall down." 6:23:08 PM    comment []