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Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground Conference

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About This Page

This page is intended as a central place to gather information on the "Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground Conference" being held at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School on January 21 and 22, 2005. Over the past few weeks a number of questions have been raised about this conference - the choice of participants, the backgrounds of the chosen participants, their agendas and the overall goals of the conference. I'm not satisfied that those questions have been answered. This page is my attempt to get those answers and to come up with further questions. I hope people will help.

The conference has a blog, and I've used it to gather the initial info. However due to the questionable actions by the conference participants to date, I think it's important to further investigate the information they've provided.

Another site gathering info on conference participants is here.

About the Conference

Live IRC discussion and transcripts will be provided on freenode.net in #webcred and #webcredtrans, respectively. Questions and comments posted in #webcred will be relayed to the speakers.

The initial info for this section comes from the "About the Conference" entry on the conference blog.

This is the planning blog for an invitation-only conference to be held on January 21st and 22nd, 2005 entitled “Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground.” The conference, which will bring together a select group of thoughtful bloggers and journalists, is being organized by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, the American Library Association’s Office of Information Technology and the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Due to limited financial resources this conference cannot accommodate large numbers of people. But it will be webcast live and there will be an IRC so that people can participate remotely in the discussion. All conference sessions and all online discussion will be completely public and on-the-record.

Our shared motivation for convening such a conference is our conviction that the world of journalism is being transformed by blogging, and that - similarly - the blogosphere is evolving and being transformed in the process. There can be no question that the phenomenon of blogging, especially blogs focused on politics and public affairs, has changed the way information becomes front page news. The examples of Trent Lott, the Swiftboat allegations and the disputed CBS documents come immediately to mind. In each of these cases, bloggers shaped the news, and the influence of blogging will only increase.

To both journalism and blogging, credibility is essential. What are the areas of common ground shared by these very different approaches to handling news and information? Can journalists who also blog do their work without conflicting standards? Might bloggers adopt standards and a transparency that will elevate their credibility? Our purpose is to bring together a small group of smart and thoughtful people to ponder these and other related issues, which will result in a published report and - we hope - will mark the beginning of an on-going and very important dialogue.

The conference will take place on the 21st and 22nd of January, 2005. More detailed info on the schedule can be found here.

The Participants

The participant list comes from the "The Participants" entry on the conference blog.

The Career section is the information given on that page. It seems to be kind of hit-or-miss info on the participants.


Outside Participation

The conference will have an audio stream. I'm not sure of the format or bandwidth requirements. I'm sure I fail at the latter, so I'll leave it to someone with broadband to research that.

The conference will "be on IRC," which is to say that there will be live transcription of the conference in one channel (#webcredtrans), and an IRC backchannel for discussion and posing questions to the speakers [-sj, the scribe].

Further questioning revealed that it will be on freenode's IRC network. No word on how it will be integrated into the conference. The participants page does not associate IRC nicknames with any of the conference participants. If any of them do log in, there's no way as yet to tell who is who. I've asked on the conference blog that they fix that. "/me holds breath..."

Questions Blog Readers and Writers Might Pose

Conference Results

To be written at the end of the conference.

Further Research Required

This is a list of additional things that need to be researched. If you're working on it, please note that on this page. If you can think of additional things to look into, please do so.

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This page was last modified 19:38, 25 July 2006 by Chad Lupkes. Based on work by dKosopedia user(s) Sj, Jimbo Wales, Kevin lyda and Ed cone. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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