Category: Ideas
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A challenge for you: Community coworking space and Web worker job training
Right here, right now, I’m going to give you a great idea, for free. Enter it in the Knight News Challenge (deadline: Oct. 15), or perhaps more likely, the Community Information Needs challenge (next year). Or fund it yourself. Or bootstrap it. Or pitch it to a local nonprofit with stimulus money to spend on…
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Catch up or get left behind
I’ve been a nomad for a few days in the middle of a short-by-my-standards 300+ mile move from the suburbs of Rochester, NY to the suburbs of Washington D.C. and boy are my legs tired. But I’m catching up on my reading, and found a few things to share with you on the theme of…
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Recommended reading: A few vital links to share
Remember when I said I might never blog again? Well, I’ve got a couple topics in mind, namely these two nuggets: There is no newspapers. The link economy is real, and it’s coming, and you’re going to love it. But I don’t have time to elaborate right now. Instead, enjoy the clues flowing freely, via…
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New at IdeaLab: The People Formerly Known as the Audience need a new name
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…
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Notes, links, and recent entanglements
A bulleted list of things that have caught my eye over the past few days, or things I’ve been involved in, or things I’d like to be involved in… Pat Thornton interviewed me for the BeatBlogging podcast. We talked about ReportingOn, what it could become, and (more important) what it could spawn if there are…
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New at IdeaLab: What’s new in ReportingOn 2.0 and what’s been left undone
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…
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Announcing: ReportingOn 2.0 is live
ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers. It’s still the backchannel for your beat, but it’s an absolute re-imagining of the network. For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it’s a place for journalists of all stripes to…
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Highlights from four days with my head in a blender full of wildly intelligent people
What follows is intended as a brief personal braindump from the four days I spent in Cambridge, Ma. last week, most of it deeply entrenched in the guts of #KNCMIT, a conference hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media featuring Knight News Challenge winners from 2007-2009, and the announcement of this year’s winners.…
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Upcoming proof of my physical existence: Boston and Pittsburgh
I’ll be showing up in person in at least two different places outside the lush springtime confines of Western New York over the next few weeks, believe it or not. The rough details Next week, I’ll be in Cambridge, Ma. at MIT for the Future of News and Civic Media Conference, including the announcements of…
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How I share: A tour of my personal linking behavior
Things you may have noticed about me in recent days, weeks, months, or years: I don’t write blog posts as often as I used to. I share links all over the place, and I have for a long time now. I have a new job that involves a lot of thinking about best practices for…