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Comment by Anna Zhou on May 24, 2011 at 18:04

haha no worries, thanks mate (:

Comment by Pabitra Mukhopadhyay on May 24, 2011 at 17:32

Hey don't feel bad Anna :) It's only natural as in our (people living in cities or towns where we aspire for better standards of life everyday) daily lives the prominence of economics is more than environment. Your topic is as good as any proposed here. Chin up, please!

Comment by Anna Zhou on May 24, 2011 at 17:26

purely casual (:

Comment by Pabitra Mukhopadhyay on May 24, 2011 at 16:22

Anna, is your putting Economics before Environment deliberate or casual? Btw, this reminds me to request Rina to include a discussion forum in the  Next Level Th!nk. :D

Comment by Anna Zhou on May 24, 2011 at 10:53

Economics vs. Environment? 

The two are perpetually linked in our 21st century lives and basically control our every action today. Don't we need good ideas to be able to maintain the two with positive growth? Unlike how most companies and individuals are going about it now...leading to the extinction of this, destruction of that etc.

Comment by Kevin Rennie on May 24, 2011 at 1:49

I'm confident that non-europeans will be included. I'm flat out this week but will look at it next. Teams could be pan global when appropriate.

Comment by Pabitra Mukhopadhyay on May 23, 2011 at 16:14

Kevin I do not dislike the idea either, simply interested to know if non-European contributors are included or not. I think you should be interested in that information too. Can you come on mind map with your idea of such a team work, say pan Europe, or pan Asia or pan Australia?

Comment by Kevin Rennie on May 23, 2011 at 12:34

Benno & Pabitra

We've had a little experience of online collaboration already. We can take it wherever we want or go wherever it takes us. '...on field, with real time interaction' is the cream. I like the idea of posting projects and building teams with diverse skills and approaches.

Comment by Pabitra Mukhopadhyay on May 23, 2011 at 11:08

Great Idea Benno. But do you propose to exclude non-European contributions? Also your approach follows a 'from part to whole' principle. I am interested to know about the 'recognition' part of the 'little jobs'.

Please correct me if I am wrong. I think innovation does not follow a 'part to whole' flow, rather individuality plays an important and role in it. Even in a collaborative project, it's a team work where each member of team retains their contributive positions.

As for credibility, I agree with you. Armchair blogging is fine, but its the work that is done on field, with real time interaction with people makes things more credible.

Comment by Benno Hansen on May 22, 2011 at 21:20

You have already split out photography in its own sub-project (CL!CK). Why not, then, video-photography, research, data visualization, editing, drawing (news cartoons) etc?

 

Then a "news room" community could act to integrate some of the various bits and pieces from the sub-projects. For example, you could post a project to do a post about unspoiled food in the garbage then researchers and photographers from all over Europe could do little jobs on documenting it. Later someone could integrate it to a full fledged piece with fly-paper-like headlines and a short narrated video. Too crazy?

 

First of all, I think it is important to continue encouraging innovation as well as credibility. Innovation, because without that new media is not much different than old media and/or will soon be picked up. Credibility because new as well as old media is meaningless without it.

 

Just some thoughts...

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