Yeah, but who’s going to build it?

The first two presentations this morning presented very interesting-looking web sites with very vague sources of funding and unnamed contributors.

I understand that everyone at this conference works for different publications, and that resorting to media consortiums and non-profit sites with unnamed editors is a way to stay on safe ground. But come on, folks.

A site run by some non-specified government agency or consortium of competitors is a site run by no one. Fantasies of large staffs and pie-in-the-sky ideas of experts contributing for free will not lead anywhere.

Larry Gonick pointed out that this was a conceptual exercise, because it’s easier to do everything than to make small, focused suggestions, and there were only a couple of hours yesterday to work on this. Fine. But I’d be very curious to hear more practical ideas about how such grandiose plans might actually be put into action today in the discussion of the presentations.