Random: collaboration, affiliation, journalism

Posted Nov 18, 2005 in politics, website stuff

One: Dave Pollard has posted a really interesting (and quite long) series of essays, studies, and narratives about how to build the ideal collaborative team and the collaboration process in general. Though I haven’t grokked all of the implications yet, I generally find their primary conclusion, that attitude is more important than experience or specific knowledge in collaborative work, to be quite true in my own experience. Two: I’ve posted a list of my personal and professional affiliations. As the traffic on my blog increases and I get some more feedback about some of the more “controversial” posts, I want to make sure I fully disclose what kinds of organizations and projects I’m involved with and have allegiances to – noting just as emphatically that none of them necessarily endorse or agree with what I write here. Three: As reported by Slashdot, the Federal Election Commission has issued a draft advisory opinion essentially finding that bloggers can qualify as journalists for the purpose of the ‘press exemption’ in federal campaign finance laws. As a blogger, I don’t really consider myself a journalist, but I know plenty who do and it’s interesting to see this conversation evolve about what protections and privileges bloggers should have.