Internet veteran Dave Winer, the developer of RSS among other things, has a new term he wants to discuss: Narrate Your Work.
It's a term that involves peeking inside the reporting process, something that journalists culturally aren't usually much willing to do. But it's a concept that suggests technology now makes it possible to share the effort and not just the results of journalism.
It makes people feel part of the process --- indeed, it uses non-journalists in the process through Twitter (something Winer believes is at least a dress rehearsal for the future) --- and still protects the journalist from criticism for premature distribution.
In essence, it says, here's what we are trying to know and here's what we know. And we're saying everything.
It's a term that involves peeking inside the reporting process, something that journalists culturally aren't usually much willing to do. But it's a concept that suggests technology now makes it possible to share the effort and not just the results of journalism.
It makes people feel part of the process --- indeed, it uses non-journalists in the process through Twitter (something Winer believes is at least a dress rehearsal for the future) --- and still protects the journalist from criticism for premature distribution.
In essence, it says, here's what we are trying to know and here's what we know. And we're saying everything.
