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Below is the recent OJR newsletter. Magazine: Smart-Mobbing the War, NYT - March 9, 2003 By GEORGE PACKER Eli Pariser and other young antiwar organizers are the first to be using wired technologies as weapons. But some of the old difficulties won't go away. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/magazine/09ANTIWAR.html Comment: The Internet is most effective when opposition is a unifying theme. Once/if hostilities start, the use of the online medium in the U.S. to support our troops <http://www.defendamerica.mil> against those who continue to protest will vastly outweigh general opposition efforts online. I found this comment from the article most revealing about how Moveon.org effectively moves on: "After an invasion, moveon.org's Wes Boyd believes the movement may become more polarized. Perhaps groups like ANSWER will continue to oppose American foreign policy in its totality, while moveon.org's membership will turn its fund-raising power to Democratic presidential politics." Building and maintaining momentum online, means you have to continuously adjust based on the general mood of the larger public you are trying to reach. I do expect that outside the U.S. the Net will still primarily be used for opposition to military action. If there is ever a time that we will see spam-based political "e-wars" among various camps this will probably be it. >From the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24984-2003Mar14.html The War on the Web Rallying Around the Flag Online By Cynthia L. Webb washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Friday, March 14, 2003; 10:07 AM While it's difficult to classify any group as "pro-war," organizations supporting President Bush's tough stand on Iraq are out in force on the Internet, using message boards, Web logs, online petitions and e-mail to rally support for using force to disarm Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from power. .... Also from the NYT - Like Online Dating, With a Political Spin: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/technology/circuits/13meet.html Planting seeds by sharing content on DoWire can help you get noticed: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00612.html Steven Clift Democracies Online P.S. Does anyone know the story here: http://www.opsos.org Also of note: http://operationdearabby.net/ ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:40:29 -0800 From: Online Journalism Review <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OJR] Covering the Next War Online Welcome to the OJR Newsletter for Thursday, March 13, 2003 Hello OJR Readers, ****************** ************* ************* Have you been reading OJR's daily dispatch of international online journalism news? Click here to subscribe to our daily newsletter: http://www.onlinejournalism.com/subscribe/index.php ****************** ************* ************* Here's what's new on OJR ... "Covering the Next War Online" In the first of a two-part series, OJR examines how technology has changed war coverage. In the event of a -- now increasingly likely -- second war in the Gulf, technology may level the media playing field. But will the Internet go head-to-head with broadcast news outlets in covering it? By Dermot McGrath. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1047595519.php GLASER ONLINE March 13: "Will War Pay for ABC's Web-Only Channel?" http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1047575350.php March 12: "Coming Attractions Moves to Cinescape" http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1047506543.php March 3: "The Net's a Natural for War, Conflict" http://www.ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1047352349.php Headlines from OnlineJournalism.com: "ABC to launch first 24-hour live online news service" http://www.onlinejournalism.com/topics/brief.php?briefID=49861 "Online journalist gears up for war" http://www.onlinejournalism.com/topics/brief.php?briefID=49880 "Putting online news ads in context" http://www.onlinejournalism.com/topics/brief.php?briefID=49835 "Soldiers' e-mails from the Gulf may be monitored" http://www.onlinejournalism.com/topics/brief.php?briefID=49827 Click here to subscribe to our daily newsletter: http://www.onlinejournalism.com/subscribe/index.php Have a good week, Josh **************** Recently on OJR **************** "Teaching Convergence" Multi-platform journalism, or convergence, is heralded as the future of news and j-school education. OJR provides a look at some ways of dealing with the growing pains of this new curriculum. By Laura Castaņeda. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/education/1046983385.php -- OJR announces the launch of a new sister publication: Japan Media Review. Located on the Web at http://www.japanmediareview.com This week's lead story: Japan's largest newspaper Web siites get hundreds of millions of page views per month. But many new media pioneers are still unsure where news sites fit into the media mix in Japan -- and whether they'll ever make money. http://www.japanmediareview.com/japan/media/1046029646.php -- STACI D. KRAMER "Breaking News Breaking Down" In the recent club fire in Rhode Island, online news sites' ability to report recent breaking news events was remarkably uneven. Some shined, some failed and some required passwords. By Staci D. 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