I just received my invitation from Open: Salon to “share” my thoughts and reflections with you. Open: Salon sent us all the standard template stating that:

“We think you’re someone who could contribute great things to Open: Whether it’s your own blogging, or your comments, or helping us rate and sort what’s there. We’re inviting you because we genuinely think you’ll enjoy it. [...] We don’t want to oversell it, but we really think that with the help of smart media people like you, we can begin to invert the pyramid of only a few people controlling the global conversation, and figure out new ways to liberate great ideas and great writing for an ever-growing avid audience.”

When I react to the above statement I think to myself: “Why is Open: Salon so interested in what I have to say and what the “global conversation” is all about. (Personally, I never thought the “global conversation” was controlled. It was just not evenly distributed.) There can only be a business model behind their intentions. Either way, I am going to experiment with Open: salon purely as a distribution channel.

I believe that the oxymoron of “Open: Salon” (which happens to be closed behind usernames and passwords ) will emerge into something different than what the initiators had intended. Unintended consequences can be seen as a norm, and I hope that we (collectively as contributers) will push the limits of Open: Salon to see how far the conversation spreads to achieve the goal of Open: Salon “to liberate great ideas and great writing for an ever-growing avid audience.”

Broadening the “Global Conversation” on Open: Salon – Mark Kramer – Open Salon

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 11:39 and is filed under ANNOUNCEMENTS.