Dez pontos sobre o jornalismo na forma de blogs Jay Rosen propõe, no blog PressThink, Ten Things Radical about the Weblog Form in Journalism, pensadas especialmente para os que se estão a iniciar na blogosfera. Em cada um dos dez pontos, e pelo recurso ao hipertexto, Rosen remete-nos para exemplos daquilo que propõe. Deixo aqueles tópicos que me parecem mais interessantes: 1.) The weblog comes out of the gift economy, whereas most (not all) of today’s journalism comes out of the market economy. 2.) Journalism had become the domain of professionals, and amateurs were sometimes welcomed into it— as with the op ed page. Whereas the weblog is the domain of amateurs and professionals are the ones being welcomed to it, as with this page. (...) 4.) In the weblog world every reader is actually a writer, and you write not so much for “the reader” but for other writers. So every reader is a writer, yes, but every writer is also a reader of other weblog writers—or better be.(...) 8.) In journalism prior to the weblog, the journalist had an editor and the editor represented the reader. In journalism after the weblog, the journalists has (writerly) readers, and the readers represent an editor. 9.) In journalism classically understood, information flows from the press to the public. In the weblog world as it is coming to be understood, information flows from the public to the press. 10.) Journalism traditionally assumes that democracy is what we have, information is what we seek. Whereas in the weblog world, information is what we have—it’s all around us—and democracy is what we seek.