{"id":2789,"date":"2011-05-16T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T00:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2011-05-16T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T00:49:01","slug":"beyond-comment-threads-any-ideas-about-game-changers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/beyond-comment-threads-any-ideas-about-game-changers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond comment threads: any ideas about &#8220;game-changers&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the best things about the web is that it enables many voices to be heard. Blogs, comment threads, forums, and social networks empower people to take part in new kinds of discussion, dialogue, and debate&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>With all that activity happening across the web, how do we enable more coherent, elevated discussion?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/drumbeat.org\/en-US\/challenges\/beyond-comment-threads\/full\">Beyond Comment Threads<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/drumbeat.org\/en-US\/journalism\/\">Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (aka MoJo)<\/a> &#8220;Innovation Challenge&#8221; is intriguing.  The deadline is this Sunday, May 22, and they encourage different kinds of entries:  a concept brief or blog post explaining  your idea (500 words or less),  an embedded video or link to a slidecast  (&#8220;extra points for explaining your idea this way!&#8221;), an early software  demo, proof of concept, prototype, wireframes, mock-ups &#8230; &#8220;anything,  really\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbe bold!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 For that matter, &#8220;the challenge brief, resources, and  stimuli are all suggestions. Be bold! Color outside the lines.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Cool!<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/jdp23\/beyond-comment-threads\">summary on Storify<\/a> has a lot more info, including links to Wendy Norris&#8217; notes from an  in-person brainstorming session in the Bay Area and online discussions  on Mozilla&#8217;s site, Hacker News, and Slashdot.\u00c2\u00a0 The challenge brief has some pointers to emerging technologies, and highlights a few questions.\u00c2\u00a0 Where do you see the next radical improvement in user commentary?  How  do we go beyond end-of-story comment threads? How do we make commenting  more social?<\/p>\n<p>It also describes the criteria the reviewers will use:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> If implemented, would you expect this proposal to be widely adopted by the news industry?<\/li>\n<li> Is the proposal feasible within the Knight-Mozilla timeline and   resources.  Program runs through 2013 and will engage 15 full-time   fellows.<\/li>\n<li> Is this a unique solution to the challenge statement? Is there  another  open source project that would be replicated if we support this   solution?<\/li>\n<li> Is it a &#8220;game changer?&#8221; Not every entry we support will be, but we should all be looking for ones that may be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did somebody say game-changer?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Hmmm &#8230; any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best things about the web is that it enables many voices to be heard. Blogs, comment threads, forums, and social networks empower people to take part in new kinds of discussion, dialogue, and debate&#8230;. With all that activity happening across the web, how do we enable more coherent, elevated discussion? &#8212; Beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,193,220],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comments","tag-journalism","tag-mojo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}