Wade sez,
I'm a senior editor at MIT's Technology Review. Right now we're trying something a little unusual (for a mainstream media outlet). For details, see this post on a new blog we created a few weeks ago.
It's Part 1 of an article about "continuous computing" that will appear in the print magazine in August. Continuous computing is a term we've coined to describe the new, much more personal, social, and natural way of using computers that's taking hold as mobile devices, ubiquitous wireless access, and "Web 2.0" services converge.
We've decided to pre-publish the article on the Web in order to gather comments, suggestions, and corrections from readers. We're folding the comments back into the online version of the story in the form of pop-up notes, and we'll include as many of these comments as we can in the actual print article.
We've never tried anything like this, but it seemed appropriate to experiment with online participatory journalism with this particular story, since it's all about social computing. All four parts of the story have now been posted on the blog, and they're generating a good amount of discussion and commentary. But we'd like to invite more people into the discussion.
(Thanks, Wade!)
