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Topic: How can institutional journalists adopt what's good about blogging? And what happens to bloggers?

Bill Mitchell of Poynter Online was commissioned to write a paper about transparency. He raises three questions for discussion: 1) What kinds of promises might be made to create the relationships we want between readers and writers. 2) If transparency isn't enough to create trust, what will? 3) What's the coolest tool we could create that would help us get at better representations of reality. [My answer to #3 is simple: Weblogs.]

Karen Schneider says she represents the end of the info transaction. In her professoin (librarian), the code of ethics says that users should do less of the work, despite Dan Gillmor's saying that we're going to have to do more work.

[And then I stopped trying to keep up. Things got good 'n' heated. Sorry. But it's being transcribed at #webcredtrans at irc.freenode.net]