a conceptual mashup for journalists, technologists and entrepreneurs
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- When you registered, you told us about a particular technology, project, service or idea you'd like to learn about, or which you'd like to present to fellow participants. Briefly, again, what was that?
- Our web sites have been doing map mashups with users for a couple years. We’ve used MapBuilder.net and ZeeMaps.com. I’m interested in sharing our experiences with these tools, learning what others are using and finding out whether a still-better solution is possible.
- How do you define "journalism that matters," and please suggest ways for journalists and technologists to collaborate (structure, events, groups, processes) in ways mostly likely to sustain it.
- Journalism that matters creates an environment of informed decision-making on a level playing field, leading to actions that substantively affect people's lives.
Collaboration works when technologists get to observe journalists in action and when journalists' assumptions are challenged. Technologists sometimes give us tools that seem to have been built in a theoretical environment. Journalists sometimes ask for tools that reinforce old-school thinking. Get all players to think in new ways: Put technologists in newsrooms where they can see what journalists are trying to accomplish while at the same time questioning journalists' methodologies. Make sure followup happens through online forums where many can participate, in events like NewsTools and in face-to-face sessions on a regional basis so that more voices are heard.
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