links for 2011-03-06

Pro journalists, meanwhile, project fears about the Internet and loss of authority onto the figure of the pajama-wearing blogger. This is a construction of their own and a key part of a whole architecture of denial that has weakened in recent years, but far too slowly. The only way we can finally kill this meme–bloggers vs. journalists–and proceed into a brighter and pro-am future for interactive journalism is to go right at the psychological element in it

Anyone "engaged and active" in the publication of news in any medium will be considered to be a journalist and will be able to claim protection for their sources.

It doesn't feel like this whole hyperlocal news technology thing is working out very well, so far at least. Maybe it's not fully baked enough yet. Maybe the public hasn't caught up enough. Maybe the economics aren't there yet. Maybe local TV news is still good enough for users. Maybe hyperlocal is best when it's hyper-human, not powered by robots.