Liferea, Google Reader and Shared items · 17 October 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Liferea was way too unstable to use and produced frequent crashes. Since a week it stopped working, crashed on start.
Time has come to change my RSS reader and I decided to use the Google service. I can note one positive thing in Liferea, it used an OPML feed as configuration so it was easy to import.
This choice turned out to be good enough, even more so, when I found the Share this item button and created my own shared items page (which works like fyoop). RSS here.
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Worldtrip of Roberto & Sebnem · 16 October 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
It is time to make a note about the blog of my friend Roberto and his Sebnem. They are on a world trip since 6 months now, going through most of South America, then Australia.
I have to admit I like reading such world trip blogs (another one being the East from Khiva), probably as I want to do one myself in the future.
Wish good luck for the rest of the trip to Sebnem & Roberto, and looking forward to meet them again.
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World66 - Visited Countries · 16 October 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Found this nice tool to show a map with the countries highlighted one has already visited, while reading the East from Khiva blog.
This is my current status:
(visited 25 countries – 11%)
And one can create her/his own here.
Unprofessional journalism · 8 May 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
The report on mediablog about professional vs citizen journalism started me to think about the subject.
This contra post addresses Citizen journalism vs. professional journalism I posted on The Editors Weblog, but first summarize its content:
- an amateur loves to do something
- a professional does something just for paying the bills
Certain core values and practices of traditional (professional) journalism—such as objectivity, accuracy, corroboration, avoiding conflicts of interest, transparency, editorial oversight, etc.—exist in order to enhance our integrity and thus earn the audience’s trust., says Amy Gahran.
Accuracy: bloggers don’t really report so what’s there to be accurate about?
Accuracy. Professional journalists claim they are accurate, however, they learned how to write and not all those fields they are writing or reporting about. Just pick up a usual journalist: she needs to interview dozens of people of different fields every month. Does she claims to have accurate background on each field? No, she knows how to write, preferably even how to ask, and when everything goes right, she even sends the draft for review to the interview partner.
Let’s go to the other side, take a professional from some field. For the example, let take someone active on the multimedia scene. She reports weekly about what she has done, what new ideas she has – with the correct background knowledge. Let’s call this person the professional amateur journalist.
More and more blogs are started by such people who have reached great knowledge in certain areas; and while working in this area, they still have time to blog in the area. These professionals are creating valuable content. And thats what the mean journalist are fearing from, thats why they are every time telling how useless blogs are.
Even if these professional amateur jorunalist are not the best at writing (still the content goes through), are they creating less value than professionals, who can only report and not create?