Harvard Conference on Journalism & Blogging
There's a big "Blogging, Journalism & Credibility" conference at Harvard that starts tomorrow. A lot of bloggers and journalists with institutional affiliations are going to be talking about a lot...
View ArticleOpen Source Documentary: Centralized vs. Decentralized?
One clear goal for The Echo Chamber documentary is to grow a community of volunteers who can actively participate in the production of this film. There are a number of collaborative media sites that...
View ArticleCalling on CivicSpace Community-Building Platform
I've been getting up to speed on the latest and greatest web technologies, and one of the most promising finds that I've made so far is with CivicSpace Labs.When I interviewed PressThink's Jay Rosen...
View ArticlePhase 11: Solicit Feedback for Final Editing Phases
Keywords * Collaborative Content Development * Volunteer Feedback * Media TransparencyContextThe eventual distribution model and business plan for The Echo Chamber documentary will determine the full...
View ArticlePhase 10: Tactics to Bridge Digital Divide and Incorporate Alternative...
Keywords * Digital Divide * Multimedia Bridging Solutions * Public Insight JournalismIntention * Find innovative ways for using existing technology solutions for gathering and including a broader range...
View ArticlePhase 09: Gather Additional Multimedia Input from Volunteers
Keywords * Open Source Media * Multimedia Collaboration * Creative CommonsIntention * Use OurMedia.org to facilitate multimedia submissions from volunteers to be included into The Echo Chamber...
View ArticleRoadmap for Open Source Documentary & Citizen Journalism Toolset Development
The Echo Chamber is a documentary on the failures of the mainstream media, and how I produce this film will hopefully provide some solutions to this infotainment bottleneck.I'm trying to develop more...
View ArticleCline's Upcoming Analysis & Scaling Collaborative Journalism
Dr. Cline informs me that his analysis of The Echo Chamber's Jay Rosen's interview is nearing completion and will be posted here soon.Cline's long-form analysis are well-suited for his Rhetorica blog,...
View ArticleKiller CivicSpace Apps on the Horizon
I attended a CivicSpace User Summit in NYC after the Personal Democracy Forum, and there were a couple of really exciting expansions to the Drupal/CivicSpace platform coming down the pipe.The first was...
View ArticleLearning Drupal without LAMP experience
I have no prior experience in Linux or MySQL or PHP or Drupal or UNIX. I'm learning what I need to know on the fly. Sometimes the forums on Drupal are for an audience who have at least some knowledge...
View ArticleThe Seeds of a Drupal Media Coalition
In order to catalyze the First Phase of Development in the Echo Chamber Project Roadmap, I need to align myself with other grassroots media activists using Drupal as well as interested Drupal...
View ArticleAnother blog documentary coming down the pipe
Steve Rubel has been asked to participate in a documentary film about bloggers done by a career film industry guy named John Hart. Rubel says that the 59 chosen bloggers that Hart plans on interviewing...
View ArticleMaking a Drupal Folksonomy Tag Cloud
I created a tag cloud for my website, and I'd like to see this feature added as a dynamic Drupal module. I thought I'd briefly go through the steps that I went through to give a leg up for anyone who...
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Echo Chamber Project Vlog Episode 1: Introduction
Introducing the first Echo Chamber Project video blog entry& vlog!Description: First vlog episode about an open source, investigative documentary on how the television news became an uncritical...
View ArticleDTV Released & ECP Vlog Channel Submission
Participatory Culture released their DTV player today for Mac only -- it's another video aggregator that should help make Internet video more accessible and prolific.I downloaded it, and it seems to...
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Echo Chamber Project Vlog Episode 2: Media & Politics
Here is the second Echo Chamber Project video blog entryDescription: Technology is transforming media & politics, and large-scale collaborative media can provide some insights into grassroots...
View ArticleUsing Citizen Journalism to Open Source Political Campaigns
I sent the following proposal to Micah Sifry and Andrew Rasiej to open source the national aspects of their campaign for New York City Public Advocate by remixing citizen videojournalism reports into...
View ArticleLessons Learned From Open Source Politics
Micah Sifry from the Andrew Rasiej New York City Public Advocate Campaign just posted long write-up with a lot of lessons learned from their open source political campaign -- a campaign that was...
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Interview Audio, Doc Searls, Doc Searls Weblog
Here's an interview with Doc Searls of Doc Searls Weblog& senior editor of Linux Journal on May 16, 2005 talking about open source communities, and how collaborative principles apply to the future...
View ArticlePropaganda versus Open Source Intelligence
The LA Times and Knight Ridder have done stories this past week on how the Defense Department has been paying Iraqi newspapers to run US propaganda. At first I was surprised to see that there were...
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