Berlind's Media Transparency Channel
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This blog is now a part of my experiment in media transparency. The premise is that if the media can broadcast polished edited content through one channel like ZDNet, then why can't it also broadcast a parallel channel that's full of the raw materials (thus, this "channel"). For a much more detailed explanation, be sure to check out the following:In case you're interested, maintaining a simplistic transparency channel like this one has so far involved a significant amount of heavy lifting. The core technology may exist, but it's my opinion that a decent UI for publishing a transparency channel does not. So, one outgrowth of this experiment might be a complete specification for such a system -- Something I call JOTS.
        

Experiment's journal will be blogged here

This will be the first in a long series of personal notes that go with my transparency experiment to record my thoughts about how things are going, my motivations for making certain decisions, and any unexecuted ideas regarding media transparency. I'm doing them at the suggestion of Jay Rosen from NYU's J-School who, in an e-mail said:


"Keep [the experiment up] and don't forget to document each step of what you are doing, but that includes the 'thought' steps, how you are reasoning about transparency, technology and trust. Often that remains implicit in the experiment, but I would urge you to keep making the thinking explicit-- premises, hunches, if/then statements."

I also met Mr. Rosen at the WebCred conference and he really encouraged me to get started. Thank you Mr. Rosen for motivating me to establish this journal (whisper to Mr Rosen: one journal begets another). In a subsequent e-mail, he said to blog this information as opposed to doing it as a living, breathing document. So, what better place than the Transparency Experiment category of this transparency channel to record these thoughts. If you're interested in tracking these thoughts and any other experiment related content, just subscribe to the aforementioned category's feed or click on the category link to the right.




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Last update: 3/24/2005; 12:02:15 AM.