Open Source Journalism

jvm writes "Markos of Daily Kos wrote today of what he describes as the legacy of blogging: open source. Not software, but the philosophy. From the article: "When I'm asked about blogging's legacy, I talk about open source. Open source politics, open source activism, open source journalism -- the aggregation of thousands on behalf of a common cause." Relatedly, egoff writes "You might have seen some coverage of Jeff Gannon, a conservative reporter who lobbed softball questions during White House press briefings. It was discovered that he was using an alias to get past White House security. The language of open source development is used throughout their description of the reporting process. At Poynter Online, journalists discussing this story have compared the random blog readers who did the bulk of this research to "what Woodstein did back in the day.""

Comments

Sounds like Communism to me.

[Anonymous Coward]

When everything is open and free, you have communism.

Think about it.

Re:Sounds like Communism to me.

[Soko]

Yeah.

I read all about that in our GNUspaper. Commrade Stallman would be proud. :-P

Soko.

Re:Thanks for the textbook example.

[Doc Ruby]

How about "I can disagree with *you* any way I please", you contemptibly conceited ignoramus? Get too original, and the cretinous ACs don't even notice they've been bitchslapped. Now YOU dance, Anonymous monkey Coward.