Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Dave Winer and Dan Gillmor on the future on news | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Who do you trust? Getting set to go "On Air" with Pitt undergrads with the Pitt Radio Station.
Dave Winer and Dan Gillmor on the future on news | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Dan talked about how reputation, voting, ranking–combining community driven attributes along with who we know and people we trust–can help filter the signal from the noise. Agreed, and it's one of the areas where a lot of innovation is needed. Whether you are a professional journalist or blogger, you have to earn trust, and there are elements (links, subscribers, ratings, etc.) that can be used to determinine reputation, as in my diagram below.
(see the link to see the diagram)

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