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2009by Jon GarfunkelThis is a series of articles on re-imagining how links can work in the semantic social web. My interest is investigating what could be regarded as the central dogma of the web for the last ten years: that hyperlinks confer authority. It's the central dogma of Google, and it's also the fundamental to the social web. 2008by Jon GarfunkelThis is a collection of pieces I've written recently on Wikileaks, the anonymous document dump website. There are interesting documents being made available on the site; I don't dispute that. I merely wanted to cover some of their foibles along the way. 2007by Jon GarfunkelTwo years ago, and ten years into its web era, the New York Times introduced TimesSelect as a value-added service for its 2 million subscribers; ultimately 227,000 subscribers paid a fifth of what either Sunday or Mon-Sat subscribers were paying. The values included access to 100 articles a month from the archives, as well as access to its popular columnists, no longer free to the casual Internet reader. The service was much derided by bloggers, who had felt that the attaching of a fee to previously free material was heresy, or bad for business, or both. The service ended last week after a two-year run. by Jon GarfunkelThis series proposes the establishment of a universal protocol for reporting online abuse. The intention of the protocol is to handle the entire lifecycle, from the initial complaint to resolution; it should specify a standard data structure which would allow for outside reporting.
by Jon GarfunkelA Multi-part series about the need for a Comment Management Responsibility framework for online publishers. 2006by Jon GarfunkelTwo weeks ago, Alaa Ahmed Seif Al Islam-- an activist, blogger, Cairene, Drupal developer, Egyptian, and fairly good husband to his wife Manal (in alphabetical order)-- was beaten and arrested, along with ten other demonstrators, as part of ongoing protests in Egypt in suppport of an independent judiciary. What followed was a smattering of global protests, online and offline to free Alaa and other hundreds of jailed protestors. These helped in part to generate media stories, and even the U.S. State Department has called the actions of the Egyptian government were a "mistake." by Jon GarfunkelTo be a Six-part series. Two parts completed so far. 2005by Jon GarfunkelRecently there's been a rash of cultural artifacts glossed with the suffix “2.0” as if they were software products prematurely released to the marketplace as version 1.0. Journalism 2.0, Web 2.0, Recovery 2.0, God 2.0. Which leaves a good portion of the cultural dictionary yet unadulterated. So I wondered... what about the Times 2.0? by Jon GarfunkelTo read the headlines, or the bloglines, one might get the sense that the bloggers have arrived on the scene to challenge the “gatekeepers” of the big media. This is an essay in eight parts to examine this theme.
by Jon GarfunkelA set of questions to be framed for investigating online participatory media.
by Jon GarfunkelThis page contains a number of research projects I've undertaken in order better study blogs and other online journalism comparatively.
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