Rebooting the News is a series of weekly podcasts with Jay Rosen, journalism professor at NYU, and Dave Winer, editor of Scripting News.
They explore the new world of news as it reorganizes around the new publishing tools and journalism practices of the Internet. Winer comes from the tech world and Rosen comes from journalism, giving them a unique combination of perspectives on the changes that are already taking place.
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Heard your show #39 and the mention of the Assignment Desk system. We have a system that distributes sales leads to channel partners in the tech industry. You can read about it at: http://www.csgchannels.com/Solutions/blueroads/leadmanagement.html.
The metaphor may work: Sales Lead = Story Lead and Salesperson Attributes = Writer Attributes.
Our Saas system is not open source, and in fact is quite expensive, but this comment may send you in a slightly different direction — looking at open source SFA solutions. We are exploring other uses for our technology and we would be open to talking about working with you.
Keep up the good work. I have not been listening for long, but I appreciate the commentary I have heard.