Collaborative Project Proposal

[Nora]

Not long after I joined the IGS board, I wrote a proposal for a grant from New Voices in Journalism, which funds innovative uses of new media for furthering the goals of non-profits. My proposal included, among other things, what I called a "first-responder" group, who would commit to monitoring various news streams for stories that seem to exemplify identification, language abuse, flawed abstractions, logic mis-use, etc., and then write gs-oriented responses that they or others could then incorporate into letters to local editors, posts on forums and blogs, or even use as the basis for email campaigns.

We did not get the grant, but the idea still makes good sense, to me, anyway. I'd like to propose that This new group (which is not That) collaborate to develop something like what I had proposed. We have the forum for doing so, and the folks who can do it, and the web has progressed just that much more that it does not tax the imagination to see some of our blog postings appearing on other sites. Whatever we do will take work: reading, discussing, writing, editing, vigilance, persistence, rationality, etc.

I've attached to this post the original proposal to New Voices, so you can get a better idea of what I envisioned, to kick off discussion on what we might want to make of it.

Thoughts?

[l'm]

When one finally ge

I feel like reading something next. Please David, put the rest!

I discovered very real experiments to practice there
Thanks a lot.

[l'm]

Hello David,

I don't see the end of the sentence in your message of the 27th of May.
I can only see "I cannot over-emphasize the ‘impact’ that these experiments have on one’s view of the world. When one finally ge"

and it ends with this "ge"
Did you intend to put another meaningful set of letters after that?

Cheers!

[l'm]

Dear David,

I had typed nearly 20 lines and probably triggered a naughty shortcut (in Firefox v.3) which goes on another page and when I ask go back all I get is a blank box. It's not the first time it happens to me but because of that I will reply later about my experiments with the young pupils.

I transfer another picture based on Seurat's work probably less artistic but which could give an interesting discussion. Something like the beginning of a "Mise en abyme" in french (and english if I believe this page of Wikipedia)

If you can, I suggest you start by seeing it from a distance (or small on your screen) and then you get closer and closer.

By for now.
Cheese (sounds better than camembert no?)
;-)