Networked Journalism Summit from CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on Vimeo.

Also see BlogTalkRadio’s interviews.

Received via email from Chris Lydom at Open Source Radio.

“Dear Friend of Open Source:

The summer is over, and so is our hiatus.

The Open Source conversation is reborn at the Watson Institute at Brown University.

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A conference call took place between Jim Colgan and Howard Parnell  from WNYC, Mackenzie Warren from News-Press, Jay Rosen and myself from NewAssignment.Net and Jeff Howe (almost all profiled in this section) took place earlier today.

The seeds for this call began at the Networked Journalism Summit when Jim Colgan and Mackenzie Warren began talking and realized they were both looking for a software solution that would enable a more seamless effort in crowdsourced journalism.

After some emails back and forth a conference call was organized and the participants have agreed to move forward and 1. Determine what this software would look like and 2. Find a way to make it happen.

Details about this endeavor will be disclosed publicly as they come to fruition.

At the Networked Journalism Summit Leonard Witt grabbed Lisa Williams for a quick discussion about an idea he has called Representative Journalism.

Here’s his quick update.

Back at Jeff Jarvis’s Networked Journalism Summit as I was networking with Lisa Williams of Placeblogger.com and telling her about Representative Journalism and about a grant I was writing aimed to it. She took a look at my grant proposal and then wrote in it:

Journalism is becoming a high-tech profession. And like other high-tech professions such as software and biotechnology, professionals experience instability – layoffs, job changes, changes in their organization’s mission. The good news about this change is that it provides entrepreneurial opportunities for journalists – but few journalists are taking advantage of these opportunities.

I am now trying to incorporate that thought into my own ideas as I try to advance this Representative Journalism concept. Right now I am trying to come up with a full blown Representative Journalism plan so I am blogging on it less but thinking of Representative Journalism more than ever.

OffTheBus.Net has shared content GroundReport and this week is doing a four day collaborative investigation with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show.

These working relationships are direct results of the Networked Journalism Summit.

If you’ve started a working relationship with anybody from the NJS, let us know!

NewAssignment.Net is Jay Rosen’s experiment to spur innovation in open platform journalism. I work for NewAssignment.Net as “director of distributed reporting.”

Details about our next project can be found at this post on PressThink. We are still looking for a few news organizations to partner with us. If you are interested, contact Jay Rosen (his email is in the PressThink post).

(update):  Jay’s announcement and a link to the full site: BeatBlogging.Org