Steve Rubel has been asked to participate in a documentary film about bloggers done by a career film industry guy named John Hart. Rubel says that the 59 chosen bloggers that Hart plans on interviewing represent his vision of the blogosphere -- after looking at the preliminary list, I can tell that Hart isn't very political since there is no sign of Instapundit, Atrios, Daily Kos, or Talking Points Memo on the list. Hart blogs here.
Rubel suggested that it might be a good opportunity for a company to support the project from a viral marketing opportunity.
Rubel didn't mention Chuck Olsen's Blogumentary or PBS'Media Matters: Welcome to the Blogosphere.
I met Olsen in Austin for SXSW and we had already discovered each others' projects. I had found his project because Olsen wrote on his site:
- I want to make Blogumentary the first open source documentary. (If this has already been done, I'd love to know about it!)
Olsen found my project after Rebecca MacKinnon & David Weinberger linked to my New Media Ecosystem flowchart.
Olsen and I agreed that he is doing "open source" filmmaking from a transparency perspective, and I intend to do "open source" filmmaking from both a transparency and a decentralized collaborative perspective. A summary of links are below, and I have a couple of other blog posts about it on the way.
I talk a bit more about decentralized collaborative investigative journalism in these places: