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A great example of twitter reporting in journalism.
A few weeks ago we had our first ChangeMedium event out on the West Coast in San Francisco, CA. Entitled “Open Technology & The Medium of Change” the evening was themed on looking how open technologies are playing a part in defining this medium of change. While sites like Twitter may have given the medium it’s initial push, it’s the open technologies that are emerging to extend its capabilities and reach.
A couple of conflicting events (the curse of remote organization) unfortunately meant for a slightly more ‘intimate’ group than we’d hoped for, but the people we did have there were certainly the right kind of people to have out and they made for some interesting conversation.
After I delivered a quick introduction to ChangeMedium, Evan Prodromou of Status.net outlined their technology - a tool that allows any organization to implement their own micro-messaging service.
He also delved into oStatus, an emerging standard which they are actively developing & pushing that allows micro-publishing services, and other applications, to pass messages between each other (i.e. a decentralized Twitter).
Following a few questions, Evan stepped aside and Jean Russell, Co-founder of Thrivable.org & Inspired Legacies, took over to share her story of how she used a combination of social and open publishing technologies to create the book “Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch” a book that was co-created by herself and 60 other contributors from around the world.
The evening concluded with about an hour’s worth of discussion that ranged from the technical to conceptual and back again. All in all it was an insightful evening with an interesting mix of people.
We were glad to be able to kick off the ChangeMedium conversation in San Francisco and anticipate watching it evolve going forward. In the time since the event we’ve even heard from one of the attendees letting us know they have implemented Status.net within their organization as a result of this meetup.
- Ryan