Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I wrote something earlier this week about what I think of as Q&A 2.0, the recent string of modern, general purpose question & answer sites exploring different ways to gather, filter, and deliver information.
And that’s the right way to think about it: Gather, filter, and deliver information. That’s a [...]
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IdeaLab: Q&A 2.0
January 16, 2010
New at IdeaLab: The People Formerly Known as the Audience need a new name
July 21, 2009
Over at IdeaLab, I’m continuing a conversation I started on Twitter a couple weeks ago that spilled over here as well.
What do you call your readers now that they’re participating actively in the creation and curation of unbundled media?
Do you call them a community?
Better yet, what makes an online “community” and how can local news [...]
New at IdeaLab: What’s new in ReportingOn 2.0 and what’s been left undone
July 15, 2009
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve got a post up that circles back to the first version of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project. In the post, I revisit some of the problems the 2.0 release was intended to solve, and I do a bit of scorekeeping on RO’s progress.
Here’s a bit from the post about one [...]
New at IdeaLab: An interview with Baghdad Brian
June 25, 2009
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve interviewed Baghdad Brian, who I met in October 2007 at the first Networked Journalism summit Jeff Jarvis threw at CUNY. At the time, Brian was raising money to keep Alive in Baghdad going, and we did everything but pass a hat around the room to try to back him up.
The next [...]
At IdeaLab: Paul Bradshaw on crowdsourcing investigative journalism
June 4, 2009
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve been way past deadline for a post, after (again) making all sorts of promises about helping out more over there. Until now.
After playing the modern equivalent of phone tag (Twitter DMs and e-mail across two operating systems and one ocean) for a week or so, Paul Bradshaw and I landed [...]