Identity

A Discussion with Webjay.org's Lucas Gonze about his playlist community, and how playlist concepts can be applied to film editing and citizen journalism. Playlists being lists of songs, and Edit Decision Lists being lists of audio sound bites and lists of video clips. We also discuss reputation, identity, and distribution.

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More details in this blog post: Playlists are to Music as Edit Decision Lists are to Film.

Any PHP programmers interesting in helping add some this functionality to Drupal's Playlist module should listen to this as well as the next two discussions with the Drupal Developers Colin and Farsheed. Look at http://www.echochamberproject.com/volunteer for updates.

Keywords

* Identity Taxonomies

* Political Affiliation / Voting Behavior
* Views on Iraq War
* Geography
* Worldviews & Value Systems
* Race, Gender, etc.

* Drupal Content Sorting

Intention

* Gather some essential identity metrics for the volunteer user group.
* Implement methods and filtering mechanisms to analyze patterns within various different identity subgroups

* What common ground do pro-war and anti-war volunteers share in their grievances about the media?

One of the big themes of the Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference was Transparency and Full Disclosure.

As a documentary filmmaker and an independent journalist, one issue that I deal with is balancing being as transparent as I can while also maintaining a certain level of confidentiality with the people that I am corresponding with.

For example, I was speaking with a consultant last week concerning whether or not I needed him to do any consulting work for this project before he takes off for Sundance. Would a paid consultant not be completely honest with me if all of his advise was on-the-record and published for the world to see? Should his consulting advice be treated as intellectual property that should remain confidential to sustain his livelihood?