http://pjnet.org/post/413/ Public Journalism Network Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:59:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://pjnet.org/post/413/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Brendan Watson Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.pjnet.org/post/413/#comment-93 I couldn't agree more with Mary Lou Fulton, and I think she is doing great work at Northwest Voice. However, not everyone who is following her into open-source community journalism is following the same model. From talking to her and reading about the Northwest Voice, it appears that she is very much philosophically committed to giving the citizen's a voice. However, there are other "open-source" projects, which seem more geared toward simply finding ways to produce content and advertising revenue on the cheap. The public is not dumb, and they will quickly see through these farces, and the participatory/open-source journalism bubble will quickly burst. On the other hand, if more people get behind the philosophical commitments of open-source journalism and community empowerment, this could be a very powerful model for future journalism, and can grow in scope to achieve things far beyond the scope and ability of traditional journalism. But we must watch carefully how open-source journalism evolves, and not assume that everyone is operating with the same healthy model, even though they may use some of the same language as Mary Lou Fulton to describe their projects. --(<a href="http://smudgedink.org/blog/" rel="nofollow">Smudged Ink</a>) I couldn’t agree more with Mary Lou Fulton, and I think she is doing great work at Northwest Voice. However, not everyone who is following her into open-source community journalism is following the same model. From talking to her and reading about the Northwest Voice, it appears that she is very much philosophically committed to giving the citizen’s a voice. However, there are other “open-source” projects, which seem more geared toward simply finding ways to produce content and advertising revenue on the cheap. The public is not dumb, and they will quickly see through these farces, and the participatory/open-source journalism bubble will quickly burst. On the other hand, if more people get behind the philosophical commitments of open-source journalism and community empowerment, this could be a very powerful model for future journalism, and can grow in scope to achieve things far beyond the scope and ability of traditional journalism. But we must watch carefully how open-source journalism evolves, and not assume that everyone is operating with the same healthy model, even though they may use some of the same language as Mary Lou Fulton to describe their projects.
–(Smudged Ink)

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