Comments on: Panel: Can the media help facilitate debate online?

By: David

David — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:57:03 +0000

I really like Meg’s division of solutions for online community management into human, technical, and editorial.

My site, MixedInk, is a collaborative writing platform and we are trying to set up technical and editorial boundaries so we don’t need the human ones. We hope to improve on the wiki in a way that would have avoided the failure of the wikitorial.

Check out (and comment on!) my post on where wikis fall short: http://www.mixedink.com/blog/?p=6

By: Robert Hooker

Robert Hooker — Sat, 19 May 2007 07:50:27 +0000

As for Flickr and on line debate, the tool is very good at faciliating that, but recently policy imposed form the admins, now making the news, has developed a hostile culture of censorship. Since the Yahoo take over and the expansion plan in to China Flickr admins have adopted a culture of regular censorhip without wanring or explanation. People are locked out of threads, and sites are taken down regularly without explanation or warning.

The tool does facilitate online culture, but Flickr is not using it well.

By: Steve Petersen

Steve Petersen — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:10:16 +0000

“Nico asked who had posted comments on a media site. About two-thirds of the audience raised their hand.

“Where is this being done well?”

I think that the public radio program Open Source — at http://www.radioopensource.org/ — has excellent community participation. The comment sections on this site tend to have a high volume of high quality and relevant responses.