[Sigia-l] OhmyNews perspective

[Listera]

We've had discussions here on GoogleNews. GoogleNews is not as "top-down
journalism" as, say, network newscasts so, for lack of better terminology,
I'll call it "algorithmic news aggregation".

Here comes another architecture on a significant enough scale in a country
with better broadband penetration than the U.S.: OhmyNews in South Korea.
OhmyNews is bottom-up, participatory, horizontal and interactive, with a
simple notion: every citizen can be a reporter.

OhmyNews
<http://www.ohmynews.com/>

NYT article
<http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:yepEm98m8V4J:https://lists.resist.ca/p
ipermail/news/2003-March/000093.html+Online+Newspaper+Shakes+Up+Korean+Polit
ics&hl=en&lr=lang_en%7Clang_tr&ie=UTF-8>

Questions:
What's our closest analogue to OhmyNews in the U.S.?
Would the OhmyNews model be successful in the U.S.?
Is there anything else like OhmyNews in another country?
Is there anyone here from S. Korea (or capable of reading it) to give us a
first hand account, especially of Korean's reaction to it?
What are the IA implications for this model?

Ziya
Nullius in Verba