Some musings from Preston Austin, Oct & Nov 2009, based on observations of how

the publishing and journalism models falter. Was trying to synthesize what I see in work
of Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky on this topic:

2 Conversations. No gates.
Actionable model of online conversation mappable to information equity

discuss

Conversation Loop(s)
listen publish content
add value** **intentional
study and listen component
-transform
active processes optional - logged
-aggregate
of inquiry and tool participation always
-combine
building adds value.
-extend
archive content Intentional value is
study Corpus Loop driven from:
curate - Viewpoint
-logs - World Model
-indices - Goals
-sources - Strategy
-datasets - Resources
-relations

Log and impute Crowd's Curation - including audience attributes,

time, channel, content attributes (td: replace term "curation")
- patterns within consumption of content (views)
- extension of content (citations, excerpts, links, annotations)
- discussion of content (threads)
Note: The different loops are equivalent structures - a high churn
unstable informal structure and a low churn stable structure within which
long run data relationships can be established and deepened and data
structure formalized.

The conversation loop requires audience and is highly active in its

curation, conversation is defined in this model to some extent as a high
rate of value additions relative to the total amount of published content.

The corpus loop can be an individual (internal to org) process or a group

process. The corpus is really just well studied conversation that is no
longer leading to a high rate of changes to the curated resources, but is
deepening them via adding links. This is where value is stored, and can
be ownable, and can be sold (or subsidies sold based on it) Presumed
to be referencable, excerptable, in place (without copy).

Although we tend to think of the Conversation as "real time" or "faster"

than the corpus, this is not a property of the model above. There may be
much more access of the Corpus, as it's value grows.