Things we talk about when we talk about what we do
Recently I've had a couple of opportunities to talk with other people who are also moving toward open-source journalism about what we're doing, what works, what doesn't, and so on. The only reason I didn't blog about them at the time was because I was swamped. But that worked out OK, because the fruits of those conversations are now publicly accessible.
The first forum was an e-mail discussion that took place at the behest of Robert Niles, editor of Online Journalism Review. Besides Niles and me, it also included Mike Noe, editor of RockyMountainNews.com, and Lauren Ward, editor of the Bakersfield Californian's reader-written Northwest Voice.
A complete transcript is here.
The other discussion took place just yesterday, when I took part in the recording of a pilot program for Public Radio International called Open Source. It's the brainchild of Christopher Lydon, whom you may know from NPR's "The Connection." The show (which has a blog here) will premiere on May 30 and will be an attempt to recreate the atmosphere of the Web and blogging on the air. Check out that blog; the creators of the show are offering a variety of ways for the public to contribute. And the podcast of our pilot, a 54-megabyte *.mp3 file, can be downloaded here. (The musical interludes you'll hear are for news and station identification.) And let me give a shout-out to Jennifer Curry and the folks at WFDD to thank them for allowing me to borrow their Greensboro studio to take part in the production.
