Ethanz’s got an important post that says (roughly) those touting citizen journalism have spent too much time talking about the utility of having citizen reporters in spots where professionals reporters may not be and not enough time talking about citizen journalists as an enormous pool of expertise on topics regardless of geographic position.

Bingo and baddabing! Ethanz’s example is of the lost opportunity to call on people around the world with mathematical expertise to explain the substance of Grigoi Perelman’s proof of Poincaire’s conjecture.

The miscellaneous world is reorganizing itself largely around topics because that’s a—the?—fundamental unit of interest. [Tags: ethan_zuckerman citizen_journalism journalism everything_is_miscellaneous ]

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