Table of Contents

• Epigraph
• Copyright
• Introduction

• Chapter 1. From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond
  • Section 1.1. The Corporate Era
  • Section 1.2. From Outside In
  • Section 1.3. Ransom-Note Media
  • Section 1.4. Out Loud and Outrageous
  • Section 1.5. The Web Era Emergent
  • Section 1.6. Writing the Web
  • Section 1.7. Open Sourcing the News
  • Section 1.8. Terror Turns Journalism's Corner
  • Endnotes1

• Chapter 2. The Read-Write Web
  • Section 2.1. Mail Lists and Forums
  • Section 2.2. Weblogs
  • Section 2.3. Wiki
  • Section 2.4. SMS
  • Section 2.5. Mobile-Connected Cameras
  • Section 2.6. Internet "Broadcasting"
  • Section 2.7. Peer-to-Peer
  • Section 2.8. The RSS Revolution
  • Section 2.9. Making Sense of It All
  • Endnotes2

• Chapter 3. The Gates Come Down
  • Section 3.1. Spreading the Word
  • Section 3.2. Truth Squad
  • Section 3.3. Looking Deeper
  • Section 3.4. Bubble, Bubble, Tout and Trouble
  • Section 3.5. Swarming Investigators and Spies
  • Section 3.6. Watching Journalists
  • Section 3.7. Turning the Tables
  • Endnotes3

• Chapter 4. Newsmakers Turn the Tables
  • Section 4.1. Learning by Listening
  • Section 4.2. Blog It
  • Section 4.3. The Celebrity Blog
  • Section 4.4. Talking to the Audience
  • Section 4.5. Fine-Grain Pitching
  • Section 4.6. Some Rules for New-World PR and Marketing
  • Endnotes4

• Chapter 5. The Consent of the Governed
  • Section 5.1. Business as Usual
  • Section 5.2. What's New Is Old
  • Section 5.3. Electing a President
  • Section 5.4. Dean Meets Meetup, Blogs, and Money
  • Section 5.5. Cash Cow, and Catching Up
  • Section 5.6. Open Source Politics
  • Section 5.7. A Changing Role for Journalists
  • Section 5.8. The Tools of Better Governance
  • Endnotes5

• Chapter 6. Professional Journalists Join the Conversation
  • Section 6.1. Traditional Media's Opportunity
  • Section 6.2. Authority from Linking, Listening
  • Section 6.3. Asking the Former Audience for Help
  • Section 6.4. Case Study: Promoting, Then Reporting, Activism
  • Section 6.5. Case Study: The Citizen Reporters
  • Section 6.6. Newsroom Tools
  • Section 6.7. Teaching New Tricks
  • Section 6.8. A Question of Trust
  • Endnotes6

• Chapter 7. The Former Audience Joins the Party
  • Section 7.1. Citizen Journalist: Bloggers (and More) Everywhere
  • Section 7.2. Evolutionary and Revolutionary
  • Section 7.3. Nonprofit Community Publishing
  • Section 7.4. Alternative Media Flourishes
  • Section 7.5. The Wiki Media Phenomenon
  • Section 7.6. Business Models for Tomorrow's Personal Journalism
  • Section 7.7. New Business Models: The Tip Jar
  • Endnotes7

• Chapter 8. Next Steps
  • Section 8.1. Laws and Other Codes
  • Section 8.2. Creating the News
  • Section 8.3. Sorting It Out
  • Section 8.4. Syndication Takes Off
  • Section 8.5. The World Live Web
  • Section 8.6. Probing APIs and Web Services
  • Section 8.7. Okay, but Whose "Information" Do You Trust?
  • Section 8.8. Dinosaurs and Dangers
  • Endnotes8

• Chapter 9. Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust
  • Section 9.1. Cut and Paste, Right and Wrong
  • Section 9.2. New Ways to Mislead
  • Section 9.3. Who's Talking, and Why?
  • Section 9.4. Trolls and Other Annoyances
  • Section 9.5. Spin Patrol
  • Section 9.6. Citizen Reporters to the Rescue
  • Section 9.7. A Flight to Quality?
  • Section 9.8. Plain Old Common Sense
  • Endnotes9

• Chapter 10. Here Come the Judges (and Lawyers)
  • Section 10.1. Defamation, Libel, and Other Nasty Stuff
  • Section 10.2. Jurisdiction
  • Section 10.3. Email and Free Speech
  • Section 10.4. Misusing Other People's Work
  • Section 10.5. Copyrights and Wrongs
  • Section 10.6. Forbidden Links and Other Outrages
  • Endnotes10

• Chapter 11. The Empires Strike Back
  • Section 11.1. Governments Get Nervous; Big Business Gets Nosy
  • Section 11.2. The Copyright Cartel
  • Section 11.3. Eye of the Beholder
  • Section 11.4. Charm and Toughness
  • Section 11.5. The Tech Industry Sellout
  • Section 11.6. The End of End-to-End?
  • Section 11.7. Return of the Jedi Users
  • Section 11.8. A Deregulatory Rescue?
  • Section 11.9. The End of Scarcity?
  • Endnotes11

• Chapter 12. Making Our Own News
  • Section 12.1. A Creative Commons
  • Section 12.2. Day-to-Day Changes
  • Endnotes12

• Epilogue and Acknowledgments
• Outline and Ideas
• Drafts and Other Postings
• Acknowledgments
• Endnotes
• Appendix A. Web Site Directory
• Glossary
• Colophon
• Index