I'm likin' the idea! If only I had spare time! ;) Thanks so much for reading my Colonialism post, and taking things a step further. As always, your insight is greatly appreciated!
Josh Dilworth
· 1 year ago
Sweet. Hehe that's what we PR peeps are ultimately good for -- bringing people together and getting things done! If I get enough positive feedback -- it's on. I think that I know enough smart/tech/Web types people and could cajole/corral them, but I don't think that this project should be about cajoling/corralling. Will miss you at Mash event tomorrow in the ATX!
Louis Gray
· 1 year ago
I do blog in my spare time. :-)
The question is, what are you looking for? I have a number of posts that are over 750 words, and just maybe, some of them are good. What would the peer review entail, and wouldn't you want to set out and have some kind of topics to focus on?
Teach me.
Josh Dilworth
· 1 year ago
I think that the answer is "yes" to both of the above. I'm just thinking aloud, but I think that per above the peer review could be an automated voting mechanism, or heck, as I just told Marshall, maybe we could even get some journalism professors and/or other noted smart peeps onboard or such for quality control, etc. Or we could run it like a real peer-reviewed journal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review). The topic, I think, would be about the evolution of the Web, broadly taken, a mix of vision for the future, coupled with the smaller steps -- behaviors, ethnography, politics, applications -- that are actually making that future happen. Maybe that's still too broad. Hehehe and I guess you're right, you DO have a personal blog, but the point with this project would be to encourage us to write stuff that was for a likely smaller audience, that was longer (both in length and development cycle), eschewed the news cycle and page view concerns, and in sum provided a much more nuanced and detailed view of the ecosystem we are collectively enabling with the rest of our lives' work. Thanks so much for the questions and feedback, you rock. I'm gonna keep noodling on this one. . .
Mark Johnson
· 1 year ago
I like this idea a lot. Both because I get too much me-too crap in my RSS reader and I love philosophizing about things on a more abstract level than we're allowed to do at work.
This reminds me of kuro5hin.org, which was something I used to spend a lot of time with.
Josh Dilworth
· 1 year ago
Nice, and thanks for the ref Mark, checking it out now. . .
sbspalding
· 1 year ago
It sounds like a fun idea. I never know when I'll have time for something like this, but I would be happy to help out when/where I can. Keep me posted.
carlat
· 1 year ago
I like the idea too but am hearing one key theme - "where will I find the time?" Maybe we remove the voting mechanism and assign one topic to one person at a time. Ex: Within the next two weeks, Louis is going to write about the roots of community as it relates to medieval agrarian societies. Or, you know, something like that. ; ) I would love to see a diverse group of bloggers tackle topics last this. And would love to contribute too of course!
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The question is, what are you looking for? I have a number of posts that are over 750 words, and just maybe, some of them are good. What would the peer review entail, and wouldn't you want to set out and have some kind of topics to focus on?
Teach me.
This reminds me of kuro5hin.org, which was something I used to spend a lot of time with.