Today is the two-year anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse and, accompanying the tragedy, was a seminal moment in Minnesota's burgeoning citizen journalism community. WCCO TV's Jason DeRusha blogs about his experience reporting the collapse today. I thought I'd share links to my thoughts about citizen media's roll in the coverage at the time: Minneapolis Bridge … [Read more...]
The One Big Thing: The Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is the role citizen media and the social Web played in reporting the popular revolt over the Iranian election results. I won't give you a play-by-play but I will offer a few thoughts: Information Wants To Be Free The first and most obvious thing was that the event dramatically illustrated just how futile government control … [Read more...]
The Real-Time Web Inches Closer To Reality: Facebook’s Live Stream Box
Anyone who has observed online behavior with the advent of microblogging will have noticed that people will often converse online during live events such as football games or political speeches or television talent shows. I have long contended that the last bastion of appointment television is the live event or breaking news. Facebook appears to be targeting that online … [Read more...]
The UpTake’s Take On Barack’s Victory Speech
Barack Obama RallyOriginally uploaded by robinraymn The UpTake, Minnesota's own citizen journalism outfit, enjoyed its warmest moment in the sun thus far with a live stream of Barack Obama's victory speech at the Xcel Energy Center last night. The video coverage included an introductory speech before Obama took the stage. After that speech was over, however, The UpTake lost … [Read more...]
Across The Sound – New Marketing Podcast Interview
Earlier this month I did an interview about citizen journalism coverage of the Minneapolis bridge collapse with Joseph Jaffee for his Across The Sound new marketing podcast. In addition to the bridge collapse we talked a bit about online politics, as well. CLICK TO LISTEN: Interview with David Erickson about citizen journalism coverage of the Minneapolis 35W bridge … [Read more...]
Future Tense Interview On Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
Today's edition of Minnesota Public Radio's Future Tense program features yours truly. I gave the interview yesterday and I must've talked to the reporter for a good 15 to 20 minutes. I don't know why, but I'm always surprised at the amount of stuff that gets left on the cutting room floor. Certainly, a lot of the responses to interview questions don't make compelling … [Read more...]
More Thoughts About Citizen Media During Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Disaster
I35W Bridge Collapse Originally uploaded by Mordac I'd like to add to the conclusions I made last week at the end of my Minneapolis Bridge Collapse & Citizen Journalism post. I'm beginning to wonder if the explosion of citizen journalism produced by Minneapolitans in the aftermath of the collapse was atypical. I wonder if Minnesota and Minneapolis merely enjoy … [Read more...]