Through a search feed I stumbled upon an anonymous j-blogger who goes by Bill and also calls himself "justacrazyjournalist." He writes a weblog called "Blogging versus Journalism." On Monday he posted a terrific essay on how the media should intelligently dip their toes into participatory journalism.
UPDATE: My readers are pointing out in comments that this appears to be an alleged word-for-word replication of a piece Steve Outing wrote for Editor and Publisher!
The blogosphere is indeed at work fact-checking this. Commenters are
also pointing out
that many of his posts quote other articles about journalism
word-for-word. Maybe he had permission, who knows? Although it looks
very ominous, I am keeping an open mind for now in the interest of
fairness and I will keep you posted if this develops further. I would
love to hear from Justacrazyjournalist to get his side.
