If we have to talk about open source media, we would definitely have to look at pegasusnews
Pegasus News is a local news company that has reinvented the broken content and business model of daily newspapers. We are launching in Dallas, Texas, in 2005 with a hyper-local, news-rich website that will have as many editions as it does users. Within a month of launch, the most broadly interesting and immediate content from that site will be published in a daily tabloid print newspaper. Once we have achieved key benchmarks with the Dallas product, we will leverage our scalable systems to roll out in every top-25 U.S. market with a monopoly newspaper.
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In a sense I feel like they are promoting a varieties of ways to get news to people. If we want to build our own open source media, I think it's necessary for us to frame down our ultimate objective.
The core of it is based on the idea that you could create an outlet for colaborative works of writing/video/media based on an open source system
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Maybe it's not just an issue of open source news, I still see it more as a community building mechanism that pushes the whole movement of the idea of open source media. Otherwise we are just doing the same thing as pegasusnews. How do we create an innovative way of collaborate opinions?
In a sense, blog/media works because they successfully sends the right message to the right people, what if we design the structure of the open source media into a system. All the little pieces work by itself (individual opinions), there are different ways of putting the pieces together. In a way it's like utopian style ultra customization, in a sense it is an emergence system that allows each piece to express its own idea and work its own way but put together they perform something bigger (which is the open source community that's being built from the communication of media.)
We are not realy designing open source media, we are more like designing a open source community which based off media.
