Jornalismo participativo Já se encontra disponível o livro We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information, de Shayne Bowman/Chris Willis (edição de JD Lasica e prefácio de Dan Gilmor). O tema do livro é o jornalismo participativo, no qual os blogs (ou, com mais rigor, uma parte deles) se podem incluir. Registo a posição de Gilmor: "(...) This is all about decentralization. Traditionally centralized news-gathering and distribution is being augmented (and some cases will be replaced) by what?s happening at the edges of increasingly ubiquitious networks. People are combining powerful technological tools and innovative ideas, fundamentally altering the nature of journalism in this new century. There are new possibilities for everyone in the process: journalist, newsmaker and the active ?consumer? of news who isn?t satisfied with today?s product ? or who wants to make some news, too. One of the most exciting examples of a newsmaker?s understanding of the possibilities has been the presidential campaign of Howard Dean, the first serious blogger-candidate, who has embraced decentralization to the massive benefit of his nomination drive. Participatory journalism is a healthy trend, however disruptive it may be for those whose roles are changing. Some of the journalism from the edges will make us all distinctly un-comfortable, raising new questions of trust and veracity. We?ll need, collectively, to develop new standards of trust and verification; of course, the lawyers will make some of those new rules. And today?s dominant media organizations ? led by Hollywood ? are abusing copyright laws to shut down some of the most useful technologies for this new era, while governments increasingly shield their activities from public sight and make rules that effectively decide who?s a journalist. In a worst-case scenario, participatory journalism could someday require the permission of Big Media and Big Government." (dica de Ponto Media).