Open Source Media: changing the world one pajama-clad blogger at a time
Thursday
Nov 17, 2005
Open Source Media, formerly Pajamas Media, launched yesterday its new blog portal that seeks to arrive at a synergy between traditional and grassroots approaches to journalism
OSMTM (yes, it’s actually an oxymoron) basically aims to
expand the influence of weblogs by finding and promoting the best of
them, providing bloggers with a forum to meet and share resources, and
the chance to join a for-profit network that will give them additional
leverage to pursue knowledge wherever they may find it. From academics,
professionals and decorated experts, to ordinary citizens sitting
around the house opining in their pajamas, our community of bloggers
are among the most widely read and influential citizen journalists out
there … We also plan to provide
a bridge between old media and new, bringing bloggers and mainstream
journalists—more and more of whom have started to blog—together in a
debate-friendly forum.
OSM would also like to clear the notion that blogs “are mere online ‘diaries,’ where egoists
and sentimentalists record their thoughts and feelings,” and seeks to put forward that concept that “the
phenomenon of blogging is much more than that; it’s the modern
equivalent of the Gutenberg revolution, a way of putting not just
published material in the hands of the public—but publishing itself.”
IMHO, it’s an excellent development that there are now entities that
seek to marry the concepts of traditional and new media. Hopefully,
this will lead to a synergy, in that the mainstream media will learn
from the honest-to-goodness, no-holds-barred, uneditorialized
publishing of bloggers, and that the citizen journalists will learn
from the systematic , thinking-of-the-bigger-picture reportage of their
veteran counterparts.
Check out their contributors’ profiles. I note that one of top Pinoy bloggers, political pundit and historian Manolo Quezon, got onboard. Two other bloggers of Filipino descent, Michelle Malkin and Richard Fernandez, are part of the team.
Hats off to Open Source Media for espousing this noble advocacy! And kudos to the OSM bloggers, as well!
(via Yugatech and Philippine Commentary)
J. Angelo Racoma is a technology journalist and blogger. See more of his blog posts here at racoma.com.ph, commentaries at racoma.net, and Twitter feed at @jangelo.
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