REDDIT: ONLINE JOURNALISM, JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

For me it’s a question of if you’re Digg or Reddit when it comes to aggregation sites.

I use Reddit because it’s smaller and less cluttered than Digg. I also use Reddit because I can start my own subreddits on a topic of my own choosing.

To my surprise no one had started one for Online Journalism. So about two months ago I started it myself. We have nine subscribers and a host of links to stories I’ve found interesting/useful reads.

What’s the point of doing this?

At the moment I’m not sure. But I like to think it could become a place to read about interesting developments in Online Journalism.

JEJU LIFE INTERVIEWS NIK BROUNTAS, ENGLISH NEWS ANCHOR, KCTV, JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

This morning I was up in Sin Jeju again to meet and interview Nik Brountas, anchorman for KCTV’s English News.

And what a nice morning I had.

The team were really welcoming and despite a bustling office sat down to answer my questions for a future Jeju Life story.

Production director Kang In-Hee also sat in on the questions, which were generally about Nik’s background and the work that goes into putting the broadcast together. Considering the short amount of screen time it has, there’s quite a bit.

I also quizzed them about who the broadcast is primarily aimed at - and was told first and foremost: foreigners. Secondly, it is to assist with English language learning.

The team were then kind enough to show me the studio where not just the English News broadcasts go out, but all KCTV news broadcasts. Nik posed at his desk for a few photographs and told me that he really does write things as the credits roll.

In a strange twist to the morning I became a story too as a film crew trailed us around the building. The spec: my visit to interview Nik. The piece went out this evening on the Korean news segment. I grabbed some screen caps and hope to have video footage soon.

So thanks again to Nik, In-Hee and Hye-Seon for your time this morning.

Keep up the good work!

THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON FIRE, JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

Having a handful of highly motivated people and a mass of barely motivated ones used to be a recipe for frustration. The people who were on fire wondered why the general population didn’t care more and the general population wondered why those obessesed people just didn’t shut up. Now the highly motivated people can create a context more easily in which barely motivated people can be effective without having to become activists themselves.

- Clay Shirky

WHO ARE BEHIND THOSE ANONYMOUS EDITS ON WIKIPEDIA? JEJU, SOUTH KOREA

When you make an edit to Wikipedia, you have two choices: first, you can register and leave your username; or you can edit anonymously. But, when you edit anonymously, it uses your IP address - a number which identifies what computer network you are from - in lieu of a username. Wikipedia does this for convenience to distinguish your anonymous edits from someone else’s anonymous edits.

In essence, WikiScanner combines two databases: the list of all IP adresses that have made edits to Wikipedia; and what IP addresses belong to which companies. So with WikiScanner you can type a company name, and it shows you what edits have come from IP addresses owned by that company.

So for example:

This Just In … MSN Search is Great!
Microsoft’s MSN Search is now “a major competitor to Google”. Take it from this anonymous contributor, whose IP address belongs to Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft’s PR firm.

MySpace Problems Solved In in Two Quick Edits
Someone from MySpace’s IP block in Los Angeles takes issue with the “Censorship” section in MySpace’s wikipedia entry, and, um, censors it — cuts it out entirely. “Security and spyware” is similarly excised minutes later.

Armenian genocide deleted by Anonymous
Somebody from the Turkish Treasury removed the part on the Armenian genocide.

For a full list of the latest questionable edits visit here.

- Sourced from: Who’s behind Wikipedia: Virgil Griffith’s WikiScanner investigates