RJI-Collaboratory-journalism

2009-01-07T01:17:13Z

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<h3>What is journalism in the new medium of the Web? What are its values and functions in a participatory democracy? We plan to make signs out of these slogans and put them around the Fred W. Smith Forum. The purpose is to remind us that we're entering a new medium, and to help us focus on journalism in the new medium.

Here's what we've come up with so far. Use the wiki function to add your suggestions: </H3>
==Self-contained statements==

*How does the story want to tell itself?
*Stories never end.
*Advertising IS news.
*Content is context.
*Journalists serve their community.
*New roles, new rules.
*Journalism ... to be continued.

==Journalism is . . . ==
*a lifestyle.
*participatory.
*contextual.
*solution-oriented.
*immediate AND continuous.
*personal.
*collaboration.
*transparent.

==Journalism is . . . ==

*a conversation.
*the stories of our time.
*community glue.
*verified gossip.
*democracy's mouthpiece.
*a social practice.
*harnessing the collective intelligence.

==More self-contained statements==
*Get out of the way.
*Journalism and Advertising Share Purpose.
*The New Model is Empty Space, Open Space, Outer Space, Limitless Space.
*Gravity: It's Not Just for Physicists Anymore.
*The Internet has Always Existed.
*News is a Network, not an Unfortunate Series of Events.
*There is no News Cycle.
*The New News Cycle is ∞.
*Journalists Shape Community and the Community is News.
*Journalism: Giving voice to community
*The road goes on forever, and the story never ends.(Robert Earle Keene Jr.
*It's the content, stupid [''Or less in-your-face'': dude].
*Journalism 2.0: On a screen near you.
*News is conversation.
*Communities are news.
*Communities create news.
*Journalists are community weavers.
*Journalists: Be all you can be.
*Journalism: Priceless

*The participant economy.
*Smart money flows to innovative firms with solid business plans.
*Who says big ideas are rare?
*Hierarchies aren't nimble.
*Big ideas are the province of anyone.
*The monopoly over information is over.
*Avoid institutional dinosaurs.
*What would Da Vinci do?
*What would Steve Jobs do?
*Wisdom of crowds.
*Question the dominate paradigm.
*Organize for Rapid Experimentation.
*Manage Projects as Experiments.
*Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners
*Its warm and cozy in the tar pits.
*Culture eats strategy every day.
*Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
*See change as an opportunity - not a threat
*Eat your own dog food.
*Ignore people's titles.
*To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.
*Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it.
*The best successful businesses help other people make money
*Transparency is a competitive weapon.
*When all you do is copy others, you copy their mistakes, too.
*Enable two-way conversation.
*Empower people to do what they want to do.
*XML, Atom, and RSS

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Learn more:
*[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/RJI-Collaboratory-program READ THE PROGRAM]
*[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/RJI-Collaboratory-participants WHO'S PARTICIPATING]
*[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/RJI-Collaboratory#HOW_TO_ATTEND HOW TO ATTEND -- FREE]
*[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/RJI-Collaboratory-travel GETTING TO AND STAYING IN COLUMBIA]

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