A Liberal, open, tolerant society where everyone has the same right to justice and every member experience that new technologies and societal changes make it easier to achieve our own individual goals for living a gratifying life - Lars Sponheim
The other day I read the following: "Love for your children is pure breed love", which sound about right, I guess. But pure breeds are not necessarily better, more adapted or suitable, - often they're worse.
I like blogs because blog postings are short and to the point. But, sometimes posts are not to the point and far too long.
I like blogs and friendfeed because you can comment and start a discussion. But, sometimes the audience just isn't there or a response takes to long for the discussion to get going.
I appreciate scientific journals for the solid content they provide. But, it takes too long too read, and it's not accessible to most.
I like friendfeed because it gives me the ability to follow blogs, science news and updates from journals. But, I have too screen the right content to avoid information overload - who knows what I am missing ?
I generally find panel-debates too shallow and uniformed. Very rarely do these debates / news commentaries manage to penetrate the issue in question. To compensate, an expert in a given field is often included. She/he is not always right.
What if you could combine blog-commenting, friendfeedish information flow and panel debates / news commentary.
Wouldn't be so hard. Give the subject beforehand, make a blog posting or similar, receive comments and useful links on the subject. Then have a moderator screen out the relevant comments and information, share with discussion participants and get a discussion going real time.
This could work on TV, radio, videocasts, podcasts what have you......and any good commenter could receive his/her 15 min of fame.
Something similar is already done with phone calls and SMS I know, but potential for improvement is just enormous.
