Re: I mentioned DF in an article

Let me know if you'd like to see a sort of experimental example of
one of our sub-projects, the Africa Development Program, which is being  run
largely by our legal and financial folks and which may be viewed via a
shared Google Doc.


Yeah, it would be interesting to take a look.  Like you said, I'm
busy, especially now, and I'm not sure of what use I can be, but it
would be good to look.  I read the Project PM page, and from what I
could tell it is a specialized social networking site where you'd
"friend" people that are worth listening to, and you can send out
information pulses some distance down the friend network.  I gather
the intent is to move the best information around more quickly in a
more chaffless environment -- I don't know if it is intended to be a
new place where the larger media outlets actually look for stories, or
if it is a way to influence what appears on the existing news
aggregators that the media already dips into, or both.  The
influence-the-media part was what I was most fuzzy on after reading
the description, but I either missed something or just don't
understand how the overall system works.

Slightly related - would you be interested in doing a short e-mail
interview? I've been meaning to do at least one piece on DF and its various
implications, probably for one of the bigger U.S. mags (non-gaming or tech,
I'm thinking The Atlantic or at least its website), otherwise just a single
piece to be run on both True/Slant and Huffington Post (the latter has
appropriate sub-sections). I would only need a couple short quotes from you,
and promise that these would not be the sort of questions you usually
receive.


Sure, interviews are always fun, especially when they are refreshing.

Tarn