June 16, 2006

Google Zeitgest Europe: my rant on citizen journalism

Posted at 11:40 in Europe, Podcasts | | 8 Comments | View blog reactions

Google had invited me to speak at Google Zeitgest Europe and just sent me the video of my rant, thanks again, Sandrine and all the Google team. Note: I started by a mistake saying most of our 15 million blogs are paying, I meant "many of them", apologies I was under light stress in front of such an audience of a few hundred european personalities and speaking just before Peter Gabriel ;-)

A great presentation.
You made the difference between journalism and blogging very clear. And in the same time told them that blogging is more and more becoming a major factor in forming public opinion. The end conclusions were to the point an accurate. Thanks again.

erik, June 17, 2006 at 14:24

Nice indeed!
Any chance we get your presentation file to support the video?

Also, you say that it's difficult to lie on an influential blog (is that right?). I started to wonder if blogs were not only making it easier to gather people with the same world view... hence not necessarily a "truth", but a sort of local truth...

Though you present the difference between journalists and bloggers very well, one thing that might be missing is the "check your sources" that no blogger has to do, while it is expected from journalists.

The problem is that in the information age, journalists only "breaking news" is appreciated (for their information or their "did you know...?" value I am not sure which one wins). Come with the same news the next day and it's too late. As a result, many journalists stopped checking their info or are checking less.

Now here is a question: will the world be divided between:
- light-speed unchecked info supported by the power of pictures and videos (that can very easily misinterpreted consciously or not by the publisher then its readers)
- slow but more reliable investigation?

In which case, the only "journalists" who survive are those:
- creating information by investigating
- publishing as fast as they can and blame their source when things go wrong
- making small bits of information sound like big news (oh was it already the case?)

Is it still information?

Benjamin, June 20, 2006 at 03:09

hi! the correct name is
"Google Zeitgeist Europe"

ZEITGEIST

alberto

alberto lacalle, June 20, 2006 at 18:36

Alberto is right: "Zeitgeist" meaning "Vision of the world"...which wasn´t the point of my post. Thanks to Google France for inviting Loic, and thanks to you Loic for this wonderful briefing on blogging. I found clear and effective up to the point that I published a post to mention this podcast on my blog. Here´s the address: http://itaddict.blogspot.com/2006/07/loic-le-meur-on-blogging-at-google.html#links

Jeremy Fain, July 13, 2006 at 13:14

Loïc,

Très bonne présentation. Habile combinaison de candeur et de professionnalisme.
Chapeau. Vraiment.

Martin R. Dugage, September 02, 2006 at 11:21

These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.

Annerose, July 10, 2007 at 22:00

Nice indeed!
Any chance we get your presentation file to support the video?

Also, you say that it's difficult to lie on an influential blog (is that right?). I started to wonder if blogs were not only making it easier to gather people with the same world view... hence not necessarily a "truth", but a sort of local truth...
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david, July 19, 2007 at 06:51

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