CNN appears to understand some of the foundational shifts occurring with how people create, share, and consume information - in this case, news. In response to the popularity of citizen journalists, they have created an uncensored, user-created news resources called iReport. Take a few minutes and contrast the iReport site with the main CNN site. What's different? iReport is more cluttered, more democratic (you can vote on stories), and more personal. Maybe I'm too much of a product of YouTube videos and blogs, but choppy video recording a steam pipe explosion in New York - complete with people scattering - is more interesting than a news anchor telling me what happened. However, I don't think these two sites are in conflict. They augment each other.
Posted by gsiemens at February 18, 2008 11:15 AM | TrackBack