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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an Internet application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers and for reading and posting articles by end user client applications. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley authored RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer. Usenet was originally designed based on the UUCP network, with most article transfers taking place over direct point-to-point telephone links between news servers, which were powerful time-sharing systems. Readers and posters logged into these computers reading the articles directly from the local disk. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet (generally known as newsgroup), either directly from the news server's disks or via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Newsreaders that help users to adhere to the netiquette are evaluated by the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval (GNKSA). There are several different types of newsreaders, depending on the type of service the user needs ? whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy. Although Usenet originally started as a message board without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in Network News Transfer Protocol discussion groups, as was common during the 1980s and 1990s before the emergence of website forums, and only use Newsgroups for downloading files such as music, movies, software and games. Therefore, their needs call for a streamlined client for quickly grabbing binary attachments, and without the extraneous clutter of text reading and posting features for which file downloaders have little use. ... Read more

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Profiles the burgeoning ranks of USENET groups--forums in which Net surfers can exchange opinions on topics ranging from Bigfoot to C++++ programming--detailing how to find, subscribe to, and contribute to them and describing nearly eight hundred of the groups.(All Users). ... Read more

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A guide to one of the Internet's most valuable resources, newsgroups are the newspapers and soap boxes of cyberspace, where free speech reigns supreme and you can shoot back just as forcefully, albeit via the computer keyboard. A popular and fun way of exchanging views and information. Stuck on the names of the mistresses of Louis XV for your history essay? Want to swap news and views with other chocoholics? Want to find out where you can buy needles for the gramophone Great Aunt Amy left you? Just join a newsgroup. ... Read more

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Title: The next gunpowder: the power of BCKS and the Command Net forum.(Battle Command Knowledge System)
Author: Kim L. Summers
Publication: Military Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Title: YAHOO AD-SELLING APP RENAMED, REVEALED.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: NewsInc (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 29, 2008
Publisher: The Cole Group
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Customer Reviews (32)

Devotes 12 chapters to a message that could've been said in 1
We the Media was written to persuade the reader to become a grassroots journalist, or at least a participant in the cause. Gillmor advocates the information sources found in blogs, forums, wikis, and other social sites. He believes the information found in this `underground' is just as rich, or even richer than big media.

He points to technological advances as being the reason for the advent of web 2.0.

Gillmor wants big media and grassroots journalism to work together and create a new form of collaborative journalism. He is passionate about the idea, and he pushes the reader to change... or at least understand the benefit of this slowly emerging movement.

The book reads well, and he incorporates many examples to support his ideas.

Gillmor has a zealous voice, but his message is nothing new.

The book was written in 2005, and it's now 2010, so many of the events cited as examples are out of date.

The book reads like an activist-speech, and devotes 12 chapters to a message that could've been said in 1. The same message was being hammered in different angles, and I got tired midway.

Although I admire the purpose of this book, you already know much of what's in here; It's not a must read.

Elishia Windfohrs review on "We The media"
IT'S true we really need a strong media to live in a democratic, crazy civil society. The real key question is how do we have an accurate, kind of reasonably objective journalist voice through a new set of "protagonists" in these days can i refer to "grassroots journalism." This book really examines the important questions here. " Where are we going with the media ie: "ditigal media" Were ever changing, but don't we miss the Hunter S Thompson's of this world? Unbridled and carefree! I know I do! So screw conforming to rules. People Speak your mind!"

Elishia Windfohr

Great intro to possibilities
My online journalism class will read this book in the fall.It's a key text for introducing people to the possibilities in digital media and citizen journalism.

A neat topic
The book was a good guide to citizen media and gave some great examples of places where citizen media would work.

I enjoyed the examples thoroughly and found the book a useful guide. I can't wait for an updated version.

Very Sensible and Interesting
Dan Gilmor here presents the attitude toward technology & journalism that any journalist will need to have if he/she will survive long in this new era. They need to embrace, or at least reckon with, the new media.

Here Gilmor gives an enlightening look at the changing face of journalism and the negative and positive changes it makes.

I'm not a professional journalist, but I found this book to be fascinating and informative. I credit it with helping me to stick with blogging, and seeing it as something more significant than a passing fad. All journalists should read this, I believe! ... Read more