A majority of Americans (55%) said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to a new We Media - Zogby Interactive poll.
Highlights:

72% said they were dissatisfied with the quality of American journalism today.
61% said they believed traditional journalism is out of touch [...]

Podcast User Magazine is celebrating a year of publishing with the release of issue #12.
The magazine, available free in PDF format, is the collective brain-child of like-minded podcasters and has had over 100,000 downloads from 108 countries.
The latest issue (PDF) features:

Talkshoe Explained
Japanese Podcasts
Picking the Tunes
Citizen Scoop
ID3 Tagging
Inside the Podcasters’ Studio with Andrew Darlow
The New Zune
Reflexion [...]

YouthNoise, a social network for youth dedicated to social change, and Veeker, a mobilecasting service, have announced the launch of Veek the Vote 2006, intended to encourage youth to get politically active this November 7th by using the video cameras in their mobile phones to communicate their experiences on Election Day.
YouthNoise, through its Web site, [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published information about how individuals can investigate government agencies. The Bloggers’ FAQ on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) outlines how to use open government laws to get access to records kept by federal agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or the [...]

Electronica artist Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the risks of nuclear energy, featuring a podcast featuring free music tracks and videos by Sakamoto, Thomas Dolby and others.
The Rokkasho-mura reprocessing plant in Japan’s Aomori Prefecture opened for testing on March 31st, 2006. Less than two weeks later, 40 liters of radioactive [...]

 

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