[...] model, expert sources whose interests aren’t disclosed are part of the old, opaque magic box of news.) Which is where Chertoff’s “you didn’t ask” defense breaks down, [...]

[...] Instead of following a one-to-many model like traditional technologies these tools are creating communication that is by the people and among the people. [...]

[...] Inspiration for explainthis.org came from myreporter.com (for more on that site, go here) and my ex-student Cody Brown, who did the mock up, borrowing from his own start-up, Kommons.com, which applies this idea to localities (for more, see this.) [...]

Elevator pitch, please.

[...] – Cody Brown [...]

[...] Nothing will replace newspaper companies or what they do. For the past few months an un-holy alliance has consumed the media nerds on Twitter as two traditional foes have attempted to etch the above idea into stone. For those who make (or used to make) a living in the newspaper industry, the idea is at the crux of nearly every editorial and is used as an argument to support micro payments, government funding, an illegal form of price fixing, and, you know, vice. For those outside the industry, the biggest rallying cry came from NYU professor Clay Shirky. He calls it the ‘great unbundling’ and asserts that there will never be another competitor to The New York Times; its pieces will be atomized and continue to spin into products like 538 and Craigslist,Read More….. [...]

[...] Cody is also the author of two very provocative and well read posts explaining the ideas he is trying to build into Kommons. The first was MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______ and the second A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear. [...]

[...] presentation and new ways of interacting with their sources and their audience (who ultimately are one and the same). See Jeff Jarvis on the entrepreneurial future of [...]

[...] Jeff: It’s similar to what Jay’s student Cody Brown just said. (See: A Public Can Talk To Itself.) [...]