NYU undergraduate Cody Brown ambitiously launches Kommons.com in a few weeks as a platform to get the public to talk to each other. His view is that the "trustee media" era is ending and a more "direct media" era is upon us.

In other words, the public can talk to itself.

"News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible," he writes.

Rather, he says the technology now exists to permit that many-to-many conversation about what's important, including the research and editing of content to ensure its fairness and accuracy.
 


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Daniel
10/25/2009 18:54

Hi Kirk, I think you mean Cody Brown, rather than Cody Kommons.

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10/25/2009 22:00


You're absolutely right.
Never blog while watching NFL.

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10/27/2009 20:28

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10/27/2009 20:31

Your readership might be interested in this comment I left at Brown's post - http://bit.ly/uZ6TZ

Essentially, I think Brown massively underestimates the reporting function that good news organizations bring to the conversation.

Lots of conversation doesn't really help if there are no fact or hard information on which to base it.

Sorry about the earlier misfired comment.

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