I wonder what I got myself into when I went to this dinner?
"Group plans to reinvent public service journalism" (sounds like a tall order to me)
I was, without a doubt, the skeptic/Web2.0 journalist in a room of hardcore print enthusiasts. That in itself was strange – since normally I’m explaining the crazy ideas I think journalists should try and the hardcore print journalists are telling me — "you’re crazy."
I am skeptical – but I encourage anyone who is going to try something dareing. Still my best advice was, as they put it: "…David encouraged us to consider starting small as simply a Web site, while Marc, Amanda and Steve argued for the print product and the necessity of starting off with significant newsgathering resources."
(Why being just a website means you don’t have "significant newsgathering resources" is beyond me.)
I love the idea of creating a serious alternative to the SF Chronicle (which sucks balls.. That’s right, I said it.. The SF Chron sucks balls) – I’m just skeptical about the execution. Still, I offered to have a sit down with Michael Stoll, the brains behind the concept, to talk about Drupal.
Funny moment during dinner: He explains that he is building a webiste in Drupal and asked if anybody was familiar with it. I raised a finger "umm, I did my masters thesis on Drupal."
On to more important things (for me).
I was recently asked to take part in a survey about being a "blogger." It’s for some guy in England (this whole other country) for his sociology Ph.d. I realized while answering some of his questions that I don’t engage my readers as much as I could. In fact. I don’t even know who reads this at all.
I’ve seen Ryan Sholin poll his readers. So, hell. Why can’t I do the same?
POLL FOR DIGIDAVE
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