DigitalJournal.com began as a technology news site in 1998.
Based on readers' feedback and suggestions, it started participating in the news-gathering process.
In 2006, it started paying writers who contributed news from around the world. Thus, DigitalJournal.com has been a pioneer in online revenue-sharing, as well as a pioneer in the world of participatory media, user-generated news and citizen journalism.
DigitalJournal.com is now an alternative news network for people who want to read news, contribute to reporting, debate and discuss news and events from around the world.
Today, DigitalJournal.com emphasizes to readers: "It is a social news site powered by people just like you. Made up of professional journalists, citizen journalists, bloggers, passionate writers and regular Joes and Janes."
Contributors are known as "Digital Journalists" and they offer news from multiple perspectives. Special attention is placed on quality and accuracy.
DigitalJournal.com has Digital Journalists in 175 countries around the world, and it invites all to contribute.
It states, "To get started, simply set up a free account and you can start contributing immediately: Write news articles and blogs, upload images, embed videos, join or start your own Groups, comment on articles, blogs and photos, and vote for articles and images that matter to you."
Everyone can contribute to DigitalJournal.com through blogs, images, video and groups
Digital Journalists have a chance to get paid to report the news.
On 30.7.2011, according to quantcast report (http://www.quantcast.com/www.digitaljournal.com, digital journal has 93,800 US visitors per month and is ranked 18,096 in USA websites.
Source for the article: http://www.digitaljournal.com/corporate/about_us.php
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The Conversation: The Academician as a Journalist Site
The online publication "The Conversation-Beta" engages academicians as journalists to provide news. Academicians from a Group of Eight universities (ANU, University of Adelaide, Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, and University of Western Australia) plus University of Technology, Sydney, CSIRO, and the Australian Science Media Centre have agreed to contribute to the publication.
The Conversation Media Trust, a not-for-profit company owns the publication and the publication is based in Melbourne, Australia. (Source: About The Conversation)
The sections available are:
Business + Economy
Environment + Energy
Health + Medicine
Politics + Society
Science + Technology
The articles are licensed under creative commons - Attribution - No derivatives.
The Conversation Media Trust, a not-for-profit company owns the publication and the publication is based in Melbourne, Australia. (Source: About The Conversation)
The sections available are:
Business + Economy
Environment + Energy
Health + Medicine
Politics + Society
Science + Technology
The articles are licensed under creative commons - Attribution - No derivatives.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Knol Top 1000 Website?
Knol is a website of Google. It is an article publishing platform with more focus on academic articles. But, Knol is an open platform and articles on entertainment as well as shopping can be posted on it and there is a welcome sign for it, as they are included in homepage categories. There was a feeling in social media that Knol is a failed product. But is it a failed product? What are the facts.
According to http://www.quantcast.com/knol.google.com 251.2 K US monthly people visit Knol. It is a good number. Because to get global numbers, you have to multiply it by 10 as Knol is getting visitors from all the countries in the world and it has articles in many languages of the world. It means 2.5 million global monthly people. It is a respectable number.
Based on the top 1000 web sites released by Google, many websites are stating that top 1000 website requires 4.1 million unique visitors per month.
Is knol getting 4.1 million visitors already?
The knol portfolio of a top author is getting 47,111 unique absolute visitors per month. Assume it is one percent of visitors to Knol (There are thousands of authors on Knol and more than 600,000 articles). Knol may be getting 4,711, 100 visitors per month. More than 4.1 million unique visitors per month. Knol might have already earned top 1000 rank in one dimension.
A knol post Knol Top 1000 Website? is already made to record it.
From tomorrow 27 July 2011, Knol starts its fourth year of public operations. Happy Fourth Year for Knol. Best wishes.
According to http://www.quantcast.com/knol.google.com 251.2 K US monthly people visit Knol. It is a good number. Because to get global numbers, you have to multiply it by 10 as Knol is getting visitors from all the countries in the world and it has articles in many languages of the world. It means 2.5 million global monthly people. It is a respectable number.
Based on the top 1000 web sites released by Google, many websites are stating that top 1000 website requires 4.1 million unique visitors per month.
Is knol getting 4.1 million visitors already?
The knol portfolio of a top author is getting 47,111 unique absolute visitors per month. Assume it is one percent of visitors to Knol (There are thousands of authors on Knol and more than 600,000 articles). Knol may be getting 4,711, 100 visitors per month. More than 4.1 million unique visitors per month. Knol might have already earned top 1000 rank in one dimension.
A knol post Knol Top 1000 Website? is already made to record it.
From tomorrow 27 July 2011, Knol starts its fourth year of public operations. Happy Fourth Year for Knol. Best wishes.
What is News?
In the citizen journalism workshop that I attended during 22 - 24 July 2011, this question was asked.
According to Oxford Dictionary, the meaning of news is new or interesting information, It is report of fresh events. It has also the meaning of medium of medium for transmitting the news and hence included in the titles of many newspapers.
According to Oxford Dictionary, the meaning of news is new or interesting information, It is report of fresh events. It has also the meaning of medium of medium for transmitting the news and hence included in the titles of many newspapers.
Citizen Journalism Course
I saw a write-up on citizen journalism workshop and attended it in Mumbai during 22-24 July 2011. The faculty Dr. Aloke Thakore strongly urged all participants to start writing and not just have the certificate of participation in files. Apart from my interest, that persuasion prompts me to start this initiative.
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