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Putting the power of mass media back into the hands of the masses...
From the Huffington Post...
12,000 people who participated in Ariana Huffington's "Off TheBus during campaign 08" should be pleased to know that they're finalists for a "Game Changer" award given by the WeMedia Project. Thanks to all the writing, reporting, recording, digging, web searching, e-mailing, news scanning, tape editing, expertise-sharing, columnizing, team playing, and eye-witnessing (that's a partial list...) they did during the project's 16 months of activity, they collectively contributed to the the first open platform election coverage team ever assembled by a major news site.
It sounds obvious, but you couldn't sign up and join the reporting staff in the national section of any major newspaper covering the 2008 election the old way. It's not part of their model to invite the users in. But if you were an interested user of the Huffington Post, you could sign up for OffTheBus. That's what they mean by an "open" platform. You, yes you, could sign up to contribute to a national election coverage team.
The project went live in July 2007 as an experiment designed to cover the amazing presidential election of 2008 - and it succeeded beyond all expectations (thanks in large part to Amanda Michel's ability to steer without controlling OffTheBus's thousands of contributors). In fact, OffTheBus was such a success that HuffPost intends to make the crowd sourcing and distributed journalism methods developed and honed by OTB during the election an integral part of their editorial process -- utilizing them across all of their different sections...
Read on...
From the Huffington Post...
12,000 people who participated in Ariana Huffington's "Off TheBus during campaign 08" should be pleased to know that they're finalists for a "Game Changer" award given by the WeMedia Project. Thanks to all the writing, reporting, recording, digging, web searching, e-mailing, news scanning, tape editing, expertise-sharing, columnizing, team playing, and eye-witnessing (that's a partial list...) they did during the project's 16 months of activity, they collectively contributed to the the first open platform election coverage team ever assembled by a major news site.
It sounds obvious, but you couldn't sign up and join the reporting staff in the national section of any major newspaper covering the 2008 election the old way. It's not part of their model to invite the users in. But if you were an interested user of the Huffington Post, you could sign up for OffTheBus. That's what they mean by an "open" platform. You, yes you, could sign up to contribute to a national election coverage team.
The project went live in July 2007 as an experiment designed to cover the amazing presidential election of 2008 - and it succeeded beyond all expectations (thanks in large part to Amanda Michel's ability to steer without controlling OffTheBus's thousands of contributors). In fact, OffTheBus was such a success that HuffPost intends to make the crowd sourcing and distributed journalism methods developed and honed by OTB during the election an integral part of their editorial process -- utilizing them across all of their different sections...
Read on...
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