Fwd: Video ideas
Subject: Fwd: Video ideas
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 6/13/10, 07:52
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>

More video questions:

Here are some more questions, to add to the list below.  I am just throwing these out to give you ideas in addition to your own to choose from with no expectation of all being answered in a short video, of course.

Will Project PM be mainly focused on commentary, opinion and analysis and not, other than incidentally, on breaking news or daily factual reporting?

Will Project PM sponsor investigative reporting?

In terms of the subject matter areas covered by the associated blogger/journalists in the network what will normally not be included? (entertainment, celebrities, travel, music, sports, _________ ?)

Structure of the network: Scott and I got into a discussion about whether the network structure would be like a pyramid or a lattice?  This arose when I was talking about pushing content "up" the network to the blogger circles with more circles under them, but Scott pointed out logically that material could go sideways to equivalent-level circles of bloggers.  I don't think I really have a clear conception of the network structure.  (It may be that comparisons to geometry are not useful.)



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From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Subject: Video ideas
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>


Questions for the video:

Barrett has written quite a lot about the need for Project PM.  I think this audience, at least, is fully persuaded, and is more interested now in "how does it work."

So, I would suggest the video focus more on the relationships among the various network participants and the web tools that will support the relationships.  This seems to be less well understood.

The blogger/journalists (called just bloggers below):

--describe the relationships among the bloggers (maybe you could hold up a diagram, or maybe show how the logo is representational of it)

--what will they be able to do that current systems and networks do not give them tools to do?

--what actions will will they be able to take on their desktops once they have downloaded the software?
-------actions that will ultimately bring readers to the blogger's own writing?
-------actions that will facilitate readers finding the writing of other network members?

--will the consent of web hosting services on which bloggers publish be necessary to utilize Project PM's widgets affecting their sites?

The stuff you went through for me about building critical mass and the degenerating pattern of current networks was informative. And Scott's concept of bypass sampling was interesting.

The readers/the public:

--will the readers need to download software?

--how will the reader access the network and enjoy the benefits of the network's evaluative structure?

The governing network:

--how would you define the functions of this body, in a couple of sentences?

--the blogger/journalists recruit additional writers to the network, who in turn will be connected to the writer who recruited them, yes?  So in contrast, the governing body is mainly concerned with things like ordering up software enhancements, kicking out plagiarists, what else?

--are there web tools in planning to support the governing network's activities, or will existing ones suffice?

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I am not invested in any of these particular questions; I am more interested in making movement occur.