In the Spring of last year I became involved in an effort that become known as ePluribus Media: I helped shape the organizational framework, recruit members, and envision the direction of the effort and movement. I left for financial reasons but subsequently wrote up an analysis based on that experience - concerning the difficulties inherent in distributed online collaborative efforts - that I dubbed "Fog of Net". It was actually titled "Sun Tzu Meets The Wikipedia: Can It be done ?" In retrospect, I might have refrained from jumping into ( or out of ) the immediate conflict which provoked me to write the piece but - nonetheless - here it is:

"This is a comment posted by Bruce Wilson to the Becoming Gannon introductory post on my UnFairWitness blog.  I'm going to move it here and offer it as a springboard for discussion of "citizen's journalism" and distributed investigations  ...tex" :