Thursday, March 31, 2005

David: It's been a while since your last transparency post. What's up? Yes, it has been a while and apologies. Time is such a gating factor to running this channel. As you can see, I'm still doing some stuff behind the scenes. For example, I'm adjusting the design of the site and have some work to do there. I'm also prototyping a software connection between my e-mail system and this transparency channel to more efficiently move content into the channel (since so much of the relevant content comes to me via e-mail). This is taking longer than I had hoped. But once I'm done, I'm hoping the result will be like prying loose a cap off a fire hyrdrant. The flow should pick up significantly. On this vector, the important finding of my experiment is that it's not as easy to be a transparent journalist as you'd think. If you're on the hook to crank out content on a daily basis (as I am in the two blogs that I write for on ZDNet), there's not a lot of time left over to be transparent. This is particularly so when the heavy lifting to be transparent on a particular story is about 10x the work of the story itself. All this said, I have some cool postings in the works that get to the heart of some really interesting blogging/journalism matters and also, I have several things cooking on the research transparency front. My musings about research transparency have apparently struck a nerve and my inbox is full of comments and thoughts that I must parse through.  Stay tuned. 9:58:16 AM    comment []