Community Driven Content For Scientific Reporting

I don't like 'open source reporting' as a phrase. I have visions of people who contribute being dissected in strange anatomical experiments in a very odd laboratory. Instead, I use community driven content - or as Pierre Levy wrote¹, molecular media. That said, 'Open Source Used for Scientific Reporting' may not have a great title, but the idea of community driven content is in there in the context of my favorite magazine (the only one I read these days), Scientific American.

...Scientific American also open sourced their gadget guide – about a third of what eventually got published were user suggestions made through the blog, said a SciAm editor...

I don't get 'open source' from that. I get 'community driven'. And it isn't scientific reporting in a very accurate sense either - science isn't a democracy or a popularity contest.

Still, I think it is pretty cool that Scientific American got on board with allowing people to affect content in some ways. I don't expect the Gong Show of science.

Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace, Pierre Levy, 2000.