Comments on: Guardian column: An online news success story

By: Readers Edition » Von Risiken und Nebenwirkungen

Readers Edition » Von Risiken und Nebenwirkungen — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:54:01 +0000

[...] Â Ich glaube: Nur so kann man es. Wir lernen nur, indem wir es ausprobieren. Und andere lernen mit uns. Ich freue mich sehr über die große Aufmerksamkeit, die unser Projekt erfährt. Wir nehmen (fast) jede Kritik ernst. Wir sind froh, wenn wir auf Dinge aufmerksam gemacht werden. Wir werden in den kommenden Wochen vieles ausprobieren, manches stößt auf euphorischeÂ Zustimmung, anderes wird kritisch gesehen, in vielen Fragen werden wir mal dafür, dann dagegen und am Ende bei einem praktikablen Durchschnittswert angelangt sein. [...]

By: Will Pollard

Will Pollard — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:25:11 +0000

You write that OhmyNews has not been replicated. Although they invite many people to their meetings, the first definite effort to replicate was only launched a few weeks ago – OhmyNews Japan.

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=313808&rel_no=1&back_url=

It is much too early to know if this is working. The change seems to be from ‘open progressive’ to ‘responsible participation’. The theory seems to be that Japanese citizen journalists will be less willing to criticise assumed ideas.

By: Hugo E, Martin

Hugo E, Martin — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:45:22 +0000

Opposite to the Netzeitung ‘grand experiment in the future of news’ the Readers-Edition in my opinion was poorly planned and poorley executed – and so is it acceptance.

You either initiate such a project on ’social media terms’ or you don’t.

By: Bloggers making German newspaper online at The Blog Herald

Bloggers making German newspaper online at The Blog Herald — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:56:19 +0000

[...] In the News Sep 20 at 4:59 am by Thord Hedengren -Jeff Jarvis has a column in The Guardian that he reposted on his blog about Readers-Edition. Itâ€™s a reader contributed German newspaper online, moderated by an editor and closely linked to its father, online only Netzeitung. Apparently it does it job superbly, showing the traditional journos over at Netzeitung a thing or two about bloggers and their workflow. [...]

By: Bizzyblog » The 527 Media Has Totally Abandoned Business Sense

Bizzyblog » The 527 Media Has Totally Abandoned Business Sense — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:20:03 +0000

[...] UPDATE: In an e-mail earlier today, Porkopolis pointed me to an item by Jeff Jarvis about a successful German totally-online newspaper effort. Notably, it was a ground-up effort, not some kind of brand extension. [...]

By: Douglas Arellanes

Douglas Arellanes — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:23:01 +0000

Another net-only ‘newspaper’ you should put on your radar is the Czech site aktualne.cz (www.aktualne.cz), which has hired some of the top investigative reporters in the country, and has been extremely active in breaking some pretty big stories (at least on the Czech scene).