Citizen journalism, a new development

In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News is putting reporter Ryan Singel at your service.
This wiki began as an unedited 1,059-word article on the wiki phenomenon, exactly as Ryan filed it. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to do the job of a Wired News editor and whip it into shape. Don't change the quotes, but feel free to reorganize it, make cuts, smooth the prose or add links -- whatever it takes to make it a lively, engaging news piece.
Ryan will answer questions from the comments page, and, when consensus calls for it, conduct additional reporting. If there's something he missed, let him know, and he'll get on the phone and investigate, then submit new text to the wiki for your review.
Readers can also submit headlines for the story, and write and edit the "deck" -- a blurb for our front page and RSS feed that promotes the article.
To make any changes, you'll first need to create a free account at Socialtext.
We'll release the results under a Creative Commons license, and, if the whole thing doesn't turn into a disaster, run the final story on Wired News on Sept. 7, 2006.

Check it here.

Crisis in the Middle East

This website provides a map of the conflict with a view by blogs belonging to some local bloggers (Lebanese, Palestinian and Israeli) and others related with the coverage of this crisis.

(Link in the title.)

The future of journalism - comics version

The citizen journalism and the power of blogs issues inspired the narrative of this comics, written by the journalist Anthony Lappé.
The story of Shooting War* begins in 2011, when the blogger Jimmy Burns shoots a terrorist attack with his mobile phone. This video and its author become broadly recognized and Burns goes to Iraq.
The illustrations were created by Dan Goldman.

* Click to check to website (in english).

Discovered here.

Clarity

Stolen here.
© UFS

Freedom of press - new concept

This week, six journalists were forbidden to enter in the Parliament of Madeira, due to inappropriate clothing. The explanation: the president of the Legislative Assembly doesn’t allow the wearing of sneakers, sandals, jeans or sweaters (with an exception in this item for women).

Discovered here (in portuguese).

What is the score?

(Link in the title.)

World eBook Fair

This website has more than 330 thousand e-books available, in more than one hundred languages, which everyone can download from the 4th of July to the 4th of August.
This period "marks a month long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first step taken towards today's eBooks, when the United States Declaration of Independence was the first file placed online for downloading in what was destined to be an electronic library of the Internet".
Check it here.

Reading

The Challenger.

In the name of the "public interest"

The Municipality of Porto just decided to create new laws for ascribing financial support to institutions: there is a new clause in the contract, which states that the institution can’t be hostile to the municipality in public.
Furthermore, it was also discovered that the same municipality has an agreement with some newspapers (from Vila Nova de Gaia), in which is given to these newspapers the responsibility of following the public acts and the municipality and municipal companies activities as well, with the benefit of sharing between themselves the revenues of the institutional advertising.

Source: Público.

If it's impossible to avoid the subject these days...

... let's talk about something curious.
The Italian press discovered yesterday the reason of the Italian team victories: the Pope. In 1982, the Pope was the Polish John Paul II and Italy won against Poland in the semi-finals and it became the champion. Now, with a German Pope, Benedict XVI, Italy won against Germany.

Why was it so difficult to find out?

Source: Público.