http://disqus.com/people/49c2ea2a3b9f950d9f4b97e1c7f390d0/enTue, 03 Mar 2009 13:21:13 -0000http://scripting.disqus.com/opening_the_newsroom_step_1_scripting_news/#comment-6843698When I read the title of this post about "opening the newsroom," my immediate thought was to open the original source materials the newsroom generates. The newspaper could write the article it wants to write, but also put up the entire audio of all the interviews that went into the article as well on a central site or as additional "footnote" type links following the article.<br><br>Then the site software could allow others to reference snippets of the same audio for other purposes, and write more articles from the same source material. Fact checking the experts. Fact checking the reporter's representation of the interview. Pulling out other interesting parts of the interview that weren't relevant to the original article but worth discussing on their own.<br><br>It's a bit like what happens today with blogs commenting on news articles. The article gets published and then bloggers excerpt and pick it apart, augmenting or arguing as they wish. However the article is a distillation of lots of content that the reporter waded through. Most of the source material (99%?) is lost and never riffed on by blogs because it isn't accessible to them.<br><br>In the new world of news, let's go back to working with the 100% instead of the 1%. This will enable the world to get a lot more value out of the news gatherers than they do today. And perhaps if the news gatherers can deliver more value, they will be considered more valuable. Perhaps you won't refuse to be interviewed anymore if the article on texting at weddings becomes one of 20 different articles your interview generates...KeithTue, 03 Mar 2009 13:21:13 -0000http://webomatica.disqus.com/battlestar_galactica_precipice/#comment-1748439How can Balthar be Bush if he is head of the conquered nation? He is closer to a Vichy France type guy I think. Or perhaps the president of Iraq presented as nothing more than a puppet.<br><br>I haven't seen a clear Bush analogy yet because the Cylons are "the Americans" in this allegory, and they run by group consensus and vote rather than having a single leader.<br><br>OTOH, the show is pretty clear on the fact that the suicide bombing strategy is a bad one, and an morally wrong one. At least if they are going to make an Al Qaeda analogy, they're showing it as a 'bad thing'.KeithSun, 08 Oct 2006 16:37:44 -0000