Thursday, January 10, 2008
Open-Source Science, Open-Source Publishing
An experiment is taking place at the Scientific American website. Writer M. Mitchell Waldrop has posted an article entitled "Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?" and is asking readers to comment on it prior to publication (I assume in the ink-and-paper magazine).
It's billed as an "experiment in 'networked journalism,' in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form." That's not quite accurate, since readers don't get to muck with the article itself. Still, putting it out for comment prior to publication is a cool experiment, and an example of the very subject of the article.
I hope there'll be follow-up to see how readers' comments affect the finished product.
It's billed as an "experiment in 'networked journalism,' in which readers—you—get to collaborate with the author to give a story its final form." That's not quite accurate, since readers don't get to muck with the article itself. Still, putting it out for comment prior to publication is a cool experiment, and an example of the very subject of the article.
I hope there'll be follow-up to see how readers' comments affect the finished product.
# posted by F.S. @ 8:20 AM 
