Comments on: The role of citizen journalism in mainstream news http://www.reportr.net/2008/01/07/401/ This blog on media, society and technology is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pramit Singh http://www.reportr.net/2008/01/07/401/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Pramit Singh Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:45:27 +0000 http://reportr.net/2008/01/07/401/#comment-272 A relevant comparisons can be made with Wikipedia, where users, like you and me, make stubs on latest issues (e.g. benazir bhutto assassination) and then the so-called Wikipedia regulars and insiders take over, polishing the entry in due time. All this while I can come again to the entry's page and add more data and more often than not I can be sure that some dedicated Wikipedian will correct the spelling, grammar and factual mistakes. A relevant comparisons can be made with Wikipedia, where users, like you and me, make stubs on latest issues (e.g. benazir bhutto assassination) and then the so-called Wikipedia regulars and insiders take over, polishing the entry in due time. All this while I can come again to the entry’s page and add more data and more often than not I can be sure that some dedicated Wikipedian will correct the spelling, grammar and factual mistakes.

]]> By: Jeremiah Owyang http://www.reportr.net/2008/01/07/401/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Jeremiah Owyang Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:21:22 +0000 http://reportr.net/2008/01/07/401/#comment-271 The 90 9 1 rule is not universal. At Forrester Research (I'm a social computing analyst) we perform "technographic" research to find out what types of technologies people use. We've found a trend between creators, joiners, critics, collectors, spectators and inactives. They results? It depends on each market and segment. For example, the Technographics of BBC's site for folks under 30 will be different for those over 50. More details from Charlene http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/04/forresters_new_.html The 90 9 1 rule is not universal. At Forrester Research (I’m a social computing analyst) we perform “technographic” research to find out what types of technologies people use.

We’ve found a trend between creators, joiners, critics, collectors, spectators and inactives. They results? It depends on each market and segment. For example, the Technographics of BBC’s site for folks under 30 will be different for those over 50.

More details from Charlene

http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/04/forresters_new_.html

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