A master calendar, perhaps?
Could someone in the "wedia" please take on the task of coordinating a master calendar of launches, so that we don't trip over each other's at-birth publicity?
Yesterday, Ourmedia.
Today, Now Public.
Soon, Backfence.
What's cool is that all three (and us; and others) are coming at it from very different directions. I wish them us all the greatest success. As I've said before, in terms of the right business model, we're all wrong in some way or another. I guarantee it.
But Ours is an exercise of search, and I assume that they, like us, are dilligently working to refine their visions in the forge of experience-- to "Create to be free, consume to die to yourself." And simply by existing, we're closer than the incumbents. And by attacking the problems differently, we'll teach each other a lot.
It's a great big wedia love-in. But I'd still like a calendar so that we can manage not to roll out the same day as Dan Gillmor.
Coolio! If someone wants to maintain a calendar of citizens media launches, we'll host it on Ourmedia and highlight it on our front page.
Posted by: JD Lasica | March 23, 2005 at 06:51 AM
I just started tracking Citizen Media Initiatives on CyberJournalist.net this weekend actually:
The list is here:
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php
Please add any others you know of and feel free to add launch dates in the comments area of each entry.
Posted by: Jonathan Dube | March 24, 2005 at 12:10 AM