Open publishing
Encyclopedia
Open publishing is a process of creating news or other content that is transparent to the readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly appear in the pool of stories publicly available. Those stories are filtered as little as possible to help the readers find the stories they want. Readers can see editorial decisions being made by others. They can see how to get involved and help make editorial decisions. If they can think of a better way for the software to help shape editorial decisions, they can copy the software because it is free and change it and start their own site. If they want to redistribute the news, they can, preferably on an open publishing site.
Internet sites run on open publishing software allow anyone with Internet access to visit the site and upload content directly without having to penetrate the filters of traditional media. Several fundamental principles tend to inform the organizations and sites dedicated to open publishing, though they do so to varying degrees. These principles include non-hierarchy, public participation, minimal editorial control, and transparency.
Open publishing idea embedded the same concept, although didn’t mention Eric S. Raymond
's major insight. In Open Publishing problematic content is shallow. Given a large enough audience, peers, readers and commentators, almost all problematic content will be quickly noticed highlighted and fixed. Arnison's Law: "Given enough eyeballs, problematic content is shallow."
It should be distinguished from open access publishing, the publishing of material organized in such a way that there is no financial or other barrier to the user. (All or almost all Open publishing is in fact also open access.)
Internet sites run on open publishing software allow anyone with Internet access to visit the site and upload content directly without having to penetrate the filters of traditional media. Several fundamental principles tend to inform the organizations and sites dedicated to open publishing, though they do so to varying degrees. These principles include non-hierarchy, public participation, minimal editorial control, and transparency.
Open publishing idea embedded the same concept, although didn’t mention Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond , often referred to as ESR, is an American computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. After the 1997 publication of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond was for a number of years frequently quoted as an unofficial spokesman for the open source movement...
's major insight. In Open Publishing problematic content is shallow. Given a large enough audience, peers, readers and commentators, almost all problematic content will be quickly noticed highlighted and fixed. Arnison's Law: "Given enough eyeballs, problematic content is shallow."
It should be distinguished from open access publishing, the publishing of material organized in such a way that there is no financial or other barrier to the user. (All or almost all Open publishing is in fact also open access.)
Examples
- Independent Media CenterIndependent Media CenterThe Independent Media Center is a global participatory network of journalists that report on political and social issues. It originated during the Seattle anti-WTO protests worldwide in 1999 and remains closely associated with the global justice movement, which criticizes neo-liberalism and its...
- Kuro5hinKuro5hinKuro5hin is a collaborative discussion website. Articles are created and submitted by Kuro5hin's users and submitted to queue for evaluation. Site members can vote for or against publishing an article and, once the article has reached a certain number of votes, it is then published to the site...
- RINFRINFRINF Alternative News is a daily updated source for under-reported news and current events. Heavy focus is placed on human rights issues and political dissent.- History :...
- SlashdotSlashdotSlashdot is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and ‑evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics. Each story has a comments section...
- WikipediaWikipediaWikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
- WikinewsWikinewsWikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying "on Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an...
See also
- Open source journalismOpen source journalismOpen source journalism, a close cousin to citizen journalism or participatory journalism, is a term coined in the title of a 1999 article by Andrew Leonard of Salon.com...
- Participatory journalism
- WikinewsWikinewsWikinews is a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has distinguished Wikinews from Wikipedia by saying "on Wikinews, each story is to be written as a news story as opposed to an...
- collaborative writing
- Peer reviewPeer reviewPeer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...
- Free contentFree contentFree content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content that meets the definition of a free cultural work...
- Participatory EconomicsParticipatory economicsParticipatory economics, often abbreviated parecon, is an economic system proposed primarily by activist and political theorist Michael Albert and radical economist Robin Hahnel, among others. It uses participatory decision making as an economic mechanism to guide the production, consumption and...
External links
- Open publishing is the same as free software. - the document which popularized the term within the IndymediaIndependent Media CenterThe Independent Media Center is a global participatory network of journalists that report on political and social issues. It originated during the Seattle anti-WTO protests worldwide in 1999 and remains closely associated with the global justice movement, which criticizes neo-liberalism and its...
, the first widespread use of the term. - Hebrew article on Open Publishing regarding Indymedia Israel.
- Center for Communication & Civic Engagenment on Open Publishing http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/digitalMedia/publishing.html
- Analysis: The Rise Of Open Media http://slashdot.org/features/00/06/19/1714239.shtml
- Three Proposals for Open Publishing http://dru.ca/imc/open_pub.html
- The Open Publishing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology - A research lab that develops open source applications for open publishing.