Reports from the Editors' BlogConf

Lively, interesting reports out of the 12th World Editors Forum's Editors' BlogConf held in Seoul, South Korea. Dan Gillmor, Joi Ito and Andrew Nachison are among those who spoke today. Susan Mernit is there, too.

Dan posted the text of his talk at his Bayosphere blog: What Professional and Citizen Journalists Can Learn From Each Other. Both Dan and I have been discussing this subject for years, separately and appearing on panels together. For those interested in digging deeper into the subject, I wrote a series about participatory journalism here, and my article Blogs and journalism need each other appeared in the fall 2003 issue of Nieman Reports.

Dan also covered many of these themes in his talk at the International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas, in April, and I videotaped his talk and published the half-hour videos to Ourmedia here and here.

Marc Canter, who just jetted off to London for the week, and I just agreed that I'll be taking on the title of Executive Director of Ourmedia.org -- I've been performing those duties anyway as Marc heads up the back-end technology end of the nonprofit grassroots media project. So I hope to be winging my way to some of these international confabs in the months or years ahead.