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Welcome to the futureTop 10 headaches in the
citizen-controlled, post-scarcity, distributed, exploding, remixed
media world
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
1. When anyone can commit an act of journalism
• Using citizens as reporters: sharing content, promotion, training, revenue
• Standing with bloggers as journalists • Shield laws• Access to officials, events• Life is on the record: ‘Son, don’t blog
this’
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
2. Libel? What libel?
• Susan Crawford argues that libel is outmoded when all have a means of response
• When we use citizens to report, what is our role and responsibility?
• The dual-edged power of the link.
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
3. Publish first. Correct later.
• In forums, we clean up after the fact• Ditto bloggers -- but staff bloggers?• The added difficulty of reviewing,
editing, correcting audio and video• The new notion that news isn’t done
when we print it; that’s when the news process begins
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
4. The distributed world.
• The Katrina effect: when what makes big media big is gone. What are we then?
• The age of the centralized marketplace is over: what comes after Craig.
• Neither content nor distribution is king. Conversation is the kingdom. Trust is king.
• So what is our relationship? . . .
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
5. RSS is a two-way street.
• We share content with others in a distributed world: our stuff on their site.
• They share content with us: vice versa.• We scrape and are scraped: the great
mandala of distribution, aggregation, distribution
• We lose control of content (among other things)
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
6. Remix and pass on.
• The people want to remix. When we give them stuff to remix, what is our responsibility?
• If you’re not in the conversation, you’• The people will distribute for us (see:
Jon Stewart on CNN Crossfire v. iFilm). • How can we be open-source?• Reconsider fair comment with
copyright
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
7. We become ad networks.
• See NashvilleIsTalking.com: sharing promotion, content, training, money.
• We will become brokers of trust for advertisers and brokers of money for minimedia.
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
8. Can we ever be too transparent?
• The highest virtue of this world is transparency (see: Dan Rather). We must catch up.
• So what happens when reporters do say what they think? What’s the crime in that?
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
9. Who owns the wisdom of the crowd?
• Google, Flickr, Del.icio.us, forums, blog aggregations all capture the wisdom of the crowd, the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Who owns what then?
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
10. Small is the new big
• Beware the cash cow in the coal mine (see: TV Guide). We, too, will get small.
• Where is our true value?• What are our businesses then?
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com
So, we need:
• Education• Discussion and study• Updated law
Citizens’ Media
Jeff Jarvis - BuzzMachine.com