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Here in Silicon Valley, there's no idea so clever or so unique that it can't be imitated, copied, and ripped off six ways from Sunday by a host of upstarts and wannabes. So when I saw that Alexis Madrigal at sister blog Wired Science had started a Facebook group and was inviting his readers to help shape Wired's science news coverage, I thought: Why not?
Twenty-six seconds later, our Facebook group, The Epicenter, was born. If you're a Facebook user (and who isn't?) and you're interested in the tech business, please come join the conversation! Whether you want to tip us off to a news story, talk about what we ought to be covering, or just give us a piece of your mind, we want to hear what you have to say.
Not only that, we're inviting you to follow us in a variety of channels. In addition to Facebook, you can follow the Epicenter team on Twitter, LinkedIn, and our personal websites. We'll be experimenting with different ways of being transparent, eg. twittering about news stories as we're working on them, so if you want an early heads-up about what we're working on, check out these feeds.
Dylan Tweney: Facebook profile - LinkedIn profile - website
Bryan Gardiner: Twitter - Facebook profile - LinkedIn profile
Betsy Schiffman: Facebook profile
Terrence Russell: Twitter - Facebook profile
There's a serious point to this. Journalists are no longer the gatekeepers of the news. Instead, we're hubs -- conduits -- and we'll succeed to the extend that we're able to facilitate the flow of information. We think tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn can help us do that better.
And yes, this is one big experiment. We don't have all the answers. So if we're missing something, let us know in the comments or by emailing the business team at Wired.com -- our email addresses are listed in the sidebar.
Photo: Khazaei
