my identity leaked in halifax!

February 12, 2006

so, funny story. i had my first first-hand experience of that online identity management problem at the roundtable i spoke at on thursday. you know, that problem when you’re a 3rd grade teacher and you post some pictures of you drunk at a party on your friendster account and your little students find it and tell the principal and you get fired? yeah.

what happened to me was that they introduced me to the audience with my very informal and tongue-in-cheek personal member profile on takingitglobal. the one where i say i used to be an internet basement nerd and that i had to give up rock climbing cuz i got a nerd disease (rsi). the one i had never intended to be used in any professional setting. it was quite a… surprise to have it read out of context to a lecture hall full of people.

so you got (from right to left):

don newman, serious and well respected journalist and senior editor at CBC
jim meek, serious professional journalist with his own column
kate raynes-goldie, basement nerd with rsi and funny hair

but, aside from this i did get to meet some awesome people at king’s and my comments got on the front page of the king’s student paper, who reported the story from the perspective that the traditional media still aren’t ready to give anything up to bloggers. very cool. and of course, a thank you all for your insightful comments on my last post!

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why don’t you trust the media (or do you?)

February 5, 2006

dear friends:

i’m going to be speaking at a roundtable on trust in the media this week and i need your input!

the thesis of the roundtable is basically that people don’t trust the mainstream media anymore, so they are turning to bloggers and citizen journalists, and that this is a bad, bad thing.

the panel is made up of me and two journalists, and is taking place at a school of journalism. so i’m basically representing the voice of youth/internet generation/bloggers and feel that this is a good chance to explain internet/blogging culture to old school journalists (and possibly bridge some gaps/create some understanding).

so, in the true spirit of community blogging, i’d like to get your input on this so i can discuss it at the roundtable.

- where do you get your news?
- do you trust the media? why/why not?
- do you trust bloggers more than the media? why/why not?
- is it a bad thing that people are turning to bloggers and citizen journalists?
- can bloggers and journalists co-exist (and possibly keep each other in check?)
- are blogging and community created media the answer to our sucky media landscape?
- are bloggers just as bad as journalists (or journalists just as bad as bloggers)?

please pass the link to this discussion to as many people as you can!

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