links for 2007-03-31

• O'Reilly Radar > SF Chronicle in Trouble?
  "If your local newspaper were to go out of business, would you miss it? What kinds of jobs that current newspapers do would go undone?"
  (tags: newspapers news journalism internet)
• The Doc Searls Weblog : Monday, March 26, 2007
  "Whether or not newspapers die (and some surely will), we are growing a new and larger understanding of What Journalism Is About. And it's a lot bigger than newspapers, whether they live or not."
  (tags: journalism news education newspapers internet)
• Trouble at the Chronicle (Scripting News)
  "reform journalism school. It's too late to be training new journalists in the classic mode. Instead, journalism should become a required course, one or two semesters for every graduate."
  (tags: journalism news education blogging citizenmedia internet newspapers newmedia)
• China Media Project: Chinese blogger "Zola" reports from the scene on Chongqing's "nail house"
  "Guangdong's Southern Metropolis Daily offered a profile of "Zola", a young blogger from Hunan province who seems determined to score a point for new media -- and make himself famous in the process.
  (tags: china blogs blogging citizenmedia journalism nailhouse freespeech)
• 最强钉子户最新进展-搞笑图片-趣味系-猫扑娱乐中心-中国第一娱乐互动门户
  Nailhouse photo album at Mop.com
  (tags: china internet chineseinternetresearch citizenmedia nailhouse freespeech)
• EastSouthWestNorth: The Nailhouse Case and the Birth of Citizen Journalism
  Roland Soong translates "The Most Awesome Nailhouse" Gives Birth to "Citizen Journalism". By Chen Wanying (陈万颖). March 29, 2007. from yWeekend. The article describes citizen reporting on Mop.com and elsewhere.
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet blogs blogging web2.0 forums bbs)
• Asia Times Online :: China Business News - 'The coolest nail house in history'
  "Whether the couple's tenacity is reasonable or extreme is open to question, but there is no doubt that their quest has struck a nerve in Chinese life. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch journalism media citizenmedia internet freespeech nailhouse)
• Thursday Video: China's "nail house" becomes a rallying point | FP Passport
  "The episode also demonstrates the power of the media, even in a relatively controlled place like China. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch citizenmedia internet blogs blogging bbs freespeech journalism nailhouse)
• The "nail house" creates a new Internet celebrity - Little Red Blog - Blogs - CNET Asia
  "But it's the visual that keeps this story going, that image of a lonely house marooned in an ugly hole. The only thing that will stop it now is when the Chinese Internet finally decides that Ms Wu Ping is overexposed."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet blogs bbs citizenmedia freespeech journalism nailhouse)
• Net Growth Challenges ChinaThe Country's Internet Community Expands, but the Boundaries of Where It Can Go Are Hazy at Best - Technology - RedOrbit
  "to analysts of China's Internet, the "nail house" had passed an opaque but crucial threshold: uniting people from across the country over a single issue. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship freespeech citizenmedia)