"The Texas Community Media Summit will bring together Texas community media makers, stakeholders, activists, and advocates on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Union."

The citizen media maven makes some compelling arguments against the idea that journalism is a profession. I tend to agree, although things like the Newspaper Guild and governmental press passes to create boundaries between the press and the public.

This site aims to be a wiki filled with leaked documetns in an effort to promote government transparency.

I was looking for videos from the N30 protests to show in class today, Students are snickering...

MediaShift has a lightweight overview of what Dan Gillmor calls "citizen media." I'm teaching a class on what media studies folks call alternative media, and this would have been nice to have at the start of the semester.

Via Dan Gillmor, FCC has given increasingly more citations to unlicensed FM operators.

How to make a sixteen-page zine from a single sheet of paper.

"ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press."

Brecht imagines utopian possibilities for radio in this 1932 essay. In my reading, this essay is often alluded to, but rarely cited. Props to jill/txt to tracking this down.

Strong Angel is a project developing IT strategies for communicating during disasters. In this post, Dan Gillmor discusses the role of citizen reporters in this project.

"The Emergency Blogcasting System is an association of Austin-area weblog authors who will respond to a regional disaster with communication and citizen reporting enabled through blogging." hmmm, I presume these are disasters that leave the local internet

Open channels that could be used by low-power community-run stations can gobbled up by non-profit translators, often by evangelical organizations broadcasting nationwide. These maps show the contrast between use by community LPFM and translator stations.

"So Can We Stop Talking About Them Now?" Thanks for articulating this, Mr. Steven Berlin Johnson; now let's move on to wikis and Wikipedia.

YouTube is to public access as cable is to public broadcasting. Local politicians reject a public access proposal arguing that the internet addresses the need for citizen-produced content.

This is a wiki devoted to documenting issues related to anarchism and direct action activism. I'm not sure why they don't just start an anarchy WikiProject on Wikipedia, but the adminstrative structure there is increasingly hierarchical.

The FCC is stepping up enforcement of unlicensed microradio operators and levvying stiffer fines. This post suggests that people are still clamoring for access to the airwaves in urban areas.

In my opinion, Wikipedia's struggles to provide quality information about breaking news aren't any worse than the mainstream media's, but a Reuters reporter apparently thinks so.

Ethan Zuckerman says "citizen’s media isn’t fairy dust that you can sprinkle on an existing program and make it magically interactive, bloggy and web2.0 compliant. "

This is a really interesting transcript of a talk about changes in the news media. It starts by discussing the checkered past of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

This mobile radio transmitter and internet access point is built on a three-wheel motorcycle/

This overview of news aggregators is for folks who haven't swallowed the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid.

This wiki collects information about the misdeeds of the Republican Party and Bush administration.

Kottke discusses a new micropayment system that requires very little end-user intervention. If some of my favorite Web comics used this, I'd probably sign up.

I'd like to write more about this later, but I've never liked the term "User-Generated Content" either.

Changes in FCC regulations are threatening the franchise agreements that fund public-access TV systems. The Manhattan Neighborhood Network system has developed a strategy for fighting back.

site comparing stories crossposted on Slashdot and Digg. Digg seems to be coming out ahead.

Steev on how Indymedia is perceived by Urban Dicitionary users. Apparently, they find it anti-semitic.

interview with Jimmy Wales

Dan Gilmor acknowledges the business failure of his Bayosphere community media project.

Rob Malda reveals how he picks stories for the front page of /.