Now that I have this site Drupalized, I can now start treating it as a cafe and not just a window into the project. Blogger Hossein Derakhashan talks about blogs being a window into a community, a bridge between communities, and a cafe where people can chat about different topics.
Up until now, EchoChamberProject.com has served as a window for the production of this film for transparency's stake. It can now take it to the next level by treating it more like a cafe where conversations can happen within the internal blogs. It can also now serve more as a community of practice where this virtual space can be used more for collaboration.
Cafe-like blog entries aren't as polished as window-blog entries. There's a tendency to put the best face forward whenever you know that the whole world is watching. But I'd like to treat the site more like e-mail discussions that are "CC: WORLD" as Doc Searls describes his philosophy of blog writing. E-mail is more personal, more informal and less polished.
I'm going to have my advisors start interacting with me more internally within this site. Journalism professor Dr. Andrew Cline will continue to cross post his rhetorical analyses at his Rhetorica.net blog.