Dan Gillmor’s on-the-scene report about OhmyNews, South Korea’s hugely successful experiment in grassroots-up online journalism. Most unexpected fact: The site’s progressive founder got some of his inspiration from his time as a student at Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia, observing the way American conservatives get their message across in the U.S. media.
Also: “Dynamics of a blogosphere story”: An unusually comprehensive and detailed study of how blogs and the mainstream media interact to create “hot” stories, with interesting insights into how individual stories do or don’t “go viral.” [link thanks to Scripting News]
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