Comments on: Ideas, not status, will win at Journalism.me

By: Daniel Victor

Daniel Victor — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:24:39 +0000

@Shafqat That’s a great question. To me personally, reading all of the blogs has really helped me develop my own philosophies, and I’ve done my best to inject those bottom-up in my own newsroom.

The easier it is to hear those ideas, the more likely we are to get some journalists on the fence to buy in. Then they take those ideas to their own newsrooms, maybe persuade the person in the next cubicle, and on and on.

By: Daniel Victor

Daniel Victor — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:20:42 +0000

I agree, Dave. I think you can be an effective gatekeeper by sticking to that criteria. And I certainly have no problem with cherry picking some interesting posts.

Having that editorial control will create a nice distinction for the ring. If a new journalist asked me where to go for an overview of the online journalism discussion, I’d point them to both sites.

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:19:00 +0000

@Dave - go for it! Sounds like a good idea, and if you can maintain focus, the results could be very interesting. I’m not a journalist (unless you count college paper), but really interested in all of these projects. Looking forward to seeing more!

By: Shafqat

Shafqat — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:16:27 +0000

Daniel - what Kiyoshi has done with Journalism.me is fantastic, and I agree that any exclusive or invite-only ring defeats the purpose. But aggregating great ideas is one thing, and acting on them is another. What is the end goal of Journalism.me? As an aggregator of thoughts it’s great, but what I’m looking forward to is the next incarnation or the evolution of the product so that bringing all these minds together results in something concrete. Not sure what that will entail - perhaps a new project, a new website, a new news organization (!). Definately one to keep an eye on.

By: Dave Lee

Dave Lee — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:15:34 +0000

I agree about journalism.me, it seems like a great site that will be infinitely useful.

With regards to the young bloggers ring — I agree with you. My first suggestion that it should be invite-only was perhaps ill-advised. My concern with allow it to be a freeforall is that we’d risk the operation becoming too big with no real focus. In my opinion, we have the blogosphere for that already, don’t we?

The young bloggers ring should be open to anybody, but there has to be a clear path of quality assurance. I think, perhaps, the critereia should just be that you a) have a blog and b) stick to the elected topic.

Then, from there, we can cherry pick some of the most interesting posts. This would not mean a bias towards the well known bloggers, rather a slight tinge of editorial control that would allow to keep the usefulness of the blog ring to shine through the mass of content.