龜趣來嘻_old

這是一場大咖雲集的論壇，叫得出名字的大概都來了，如果你想要現場收看webcast與線上討論，請到這個網址：
ohmynews international citizen reporters' forum

各Session的主講者和議題在這裡：
OMNI Forum On-Air - OhmyNews International
Dan Gillmor(citimedia), J.D. Lasica(ourmedia), Craig Newmark(craigslist.org), Bryan Nuenz(witness.org；在菲律賓見過), Tim Lord(Slashdot.org)...and a lot more...

我本來想做即時報導，但是Ethan(在現場)已經做了很棒的現場blogging，所以就請大家去他那裡看：
Dan Gillmor - the technology's not the thing…
Technology Panel at OhmyNews forum
Who are citizen journalists?(本篇介紹了多位ohmynews的公民記者)
Scoop and Flix - the offspring of OhmyNews?
More faces of OhmyNews
Japan versus South Korea: Can you export OhmyNews? (這篇很有參考價值)

Democracy, he notes, is new to Japan, introduced after WWII. And
it’s still not very popular - despite Koizumi’s popularity, only 67% of
people voted in the last election. (This would be a phenomenal turnout
by US standards!)

Citizen - “shi-min” - sounds a little odd
in Japanese. It calls up implications of “taxpayer”. But it’s important
that citizen reporting include housewives, students, and foreigners
living in Japan. But there are differences between Korea and Japan that
may make the OhmyNews model difficult to replicate:

- South
Korea had a succesful democratic movement in 1987, which generated a
great deal of political will and power. In Japan, a dominant political
party has ruled for over 60 years. Thus politics in Japan tends to be
covered as a horserace or a baseball game, not a participatory
phenomenon.

- There’s a strong distrust of mainstream media in South Korea, but great respect for mainstream journalism in Japan.

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The relationship to the Internet is complicated in Japan. Yes, there
are 8.6 million bloggers, many of them writing expert blogs on esoteric
subjects. But there’s a lot of resentment of this culture, largely
based on the culture of “Second channel”, a Japanese site that shows
much of the worst of the participatory internet.

- Many
Japanese aren’t comfortable connecting their names to their opinions -
they’re more comfortable in a culture of anonymity.