Thought of the Day: Ning

Taken from a recent email conversation I had with my colleague Johannes Kuhn, a new media journalist in Germany.

"Platforms like Ning could be a pre-stage: a network of people who do
"journalistic acts" around the world, a group of people who do not
compete directly so they can share ideas about what things to report
on, who to ask for a certain topic, etc. Maybe one person might
translate your questions into Chinese, if you have an interview with
somebody from China…or even translate your piece into another
language, so you can sell your pieces abroad (and you can do him/her
another favour)…things like these sound really exciting to me,
because it would be very inspiring and time-efficient. But still – to
work together doing "the real thing", we have to build the legal and
data infrastructure to do this efficiently with out just sending
encrypted mails back and forth."