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Bayosphere is Ramping UP
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| Categories: General Thoughts The Bayosphere is going live, as they announce in "Forums go live. Talk amongst ourselves....". They're still more than a month away from their formal launch, but they're ramping up with forums, a new central blog, and a search for some part-time "hosts".
Many things about the Bayosphere project interest me. First, is that it is a working experiment in citizen's journalism. Second, it's all about the SF Bay Area, the place with which I fell in love back in 1979 when I was out here on a business trip, and where I've lived, worked and played for over 20 years now.
The most interesting aspect to me however, is an item promised in the "Upcoming" section of the post cited above...
"Personal Workspaces for those who want to post stories, collaborate, or blog"
We're very interested here in new ways to collaborate, manage data, transform data into information, and share the results so that everything you need is immediately available where ever and whenever you need it. I've been reading Dan Gillmor for years, and I'm very interested to see what he, Michael Goff and the others at Grassroots Media have in mind for the personal workspaces.
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Thanks for the visit and words of encouragement. I'm as excited as anyone about our ramp up, and i hope you'll bring your tools expertise to bear. Not to damper any excitement, but our workspaces will be pretty basic out of the box with the ability to compose, draft, store, share, and submit stories for the different sections of Bayosphere. We'll each have space to host the work we've done on the site and beyond. Those interested can base a blog there. It's a start, and in the spirit of developing as-needed features, we'll make available any tool our contributors want that we can lay our hands on--wikis, groups, etc. We'll start building (or getting others to build) what we can't lay our hands on. We've also got some ideas we'll be testing to use existing tools with new and adapted methodologies.
Hate to spoil hopes for a shiny new toolbox (or a pony), but we really don't know more than the community we're bringing together. We would like to be of service, will continue to listen, and hope to find smart collaborators, like yourself, to help with our bag of tricks.
Everyone come by sometime, and have a great weekend.
Michael Goff, partner at Bayosphere
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