It's about looking through a screen at creation, traipsing around in the primordial muck of a brand new world. It's about frontiers both virtual and visceral, identities found and lost, realities imagined and all too tangible. It's about heartbreak, hope, shame, greed, beauty. In short, it's about us, and what we're doing here. Along the way, we at StarNet hope to hack the old rules of journalism and come up with something more useful for this new world.
Many newspapers simply shovel their printed news online and hope for the best.
This column and the rest of StarNet's Dispatches amount to a different approach. Maybe I'll lug a videocamera along for my interviews. Maybe we'll post streaming audio feeds from microphones in politicians' offices. Maybe we won't tell them. The possibilities are endless.