One of the many things I picked up in my tenures as blog editor at Corante's Media Hub and for the We Media Miami conference blog, is that sometimes you have to go out and listen to what the greater blogosphere is saying about your project....
And as a blogger, I'm used to doing copious vanity searches. That's how I found out I was linked on Techmeme even before I had any hits from the site...
So today, I thought I'd go down to Technorati and do a search on "Assignment Zero" just to listen who's saying what about AZ....
Contributor on the Crowdsourcing Creative Commons project, David Pick, wrote on one of his blogs about his work so far. David's found some good source material and posted it in the Reporter's Notebook over in the Creative Commons Legal Cases section. Thanks, David!
On PJNet Today Leonard Witt has the transcript of his IM interview with Jay about what we're going to do now that we have 700-plus folks signed up for AZ. A quick snip:
Witt: You have always framed this is as experiment. So success or failure, lots will be learned. What have you learned so far?Rosen: There are people who want to play. They include people from many parts of the world. If you can figure out the right size thing to ask of them, and post it, then this model may work. Also, going back to an earlier question, about what I anticipated. I anticipated that if we got a wave of participants, we would also have to grapple with a wave of "interaction costs" generated by those participants. Simple expression of it is a full in-box, and hundreds of emails to return from the very people you asked "in." This happens in every open source project with significant volunteer action. It forces you to innovate and find volunteers who can help organize other volunteers. We are right in the middle of this riddle now, and there will be some big learning there if we can solve it because that is what allows the project "to scale," as we say in Web. 2.0
(tip to Jeff Howe for this one.)
But it's not just AZ that's in the blogosphere. Jay spoke on Tuesday, 3/27 at the Social Media Club in NYC. nextNY posted a full transcript of the interview. A question asked after Jay's talk:
Q: how do you accommodate for standards of journalism, from writing to vetting stories.A: we are trying to practice open platform, capture the benefits of openness but we know there are cots. the tricks are to have benefits and reduce costs. one of costs is about knowing the credibility of the participants. we are not going to prevent people joining, but have strict controls on what we will print. exercise controls at the final gateway. if we can’t reach you by phone, then unlikely to give you stuff essential to do. there’s no single solution to it. you have overlapping measures that add up to a workable solutions
After the SMC talk: Definitive Ink adds some commentary and Savvy Musings ponders credibility in a info-saturated world.
That's today's links...wonder what tomorrow will bring...
