"Open Source Media" intenta casar Bloggers y Periodistas/Open Source Media tries to blend blogs and mainstream media

De este artículo de Yahoo News y la Agencia AP (Gracias Hugo Burgos por el tip), un sitio web informativo Open Source Media intenta unir el periodismo tradicional con los blogs. OSM estará conectado con blogs y pondrá en valor las mejores contribuciones. Busca promover la Comunicación Ciudadana, en particular en caso de desastres.
De una rápida revisión de la red, las primeras reacciones son mitigadas... Aquí un artículo al respecto de Barrapunto
From this article in Yahoo News (AP), the beginnings of Open Source Media, a new informative web site trying to marry traditional journalism with blogs. Extracts: "Some 70 Web journalists, including Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds and David Corn, Washington editor of the Nation magazine, have agreed to participate in OSM — short for Open Source Media.
OSM will link to individual blog postings and highlight the best contributions, chosen by OSM editors, in a special section. Bloggers will be paid undisclosed sums based on traffic they generate... "We're deliberately trying to do something new by affiliating blog and mainstream people," said Roger L. Simon, a blogger and the venture's co-founder... Many details of OSM remain unsettled. For example, OSM wants to create a mechanism for citizen journalists, including bloggers, to submit original news during natural disasters, civil unrest and other newsworthy events. Simon said organizers still have to come up with ways to check submissions for accuracy. Initially, OSM will create blog-like discussion panels surrounding major news events, with three or four bloggers and non-blogging experts chosen to contribute.
Although Simon and co-founder Charles Johnson are often described as conservative, Simon said the site will transcend labels and include bloggers of all political leanings.
OSM was founded last year as Pajamas Media, a play on bloggers' ability to opine from home at all hours, day or night. It has raised $3.5 million from venture capitalists."
Aparently, first reactions are not that good...






