Jason Preston over at Eat Sleep Publish interviewed me about my "Source Blocks" idea. He and a few other people have expressed their support for this experiment in journalistic transparency, and now I am wondering how to improve and expand the system. Some questions to consider:
Are source blocks useful?
How can they be improved?
How can we evangelize Source Blocks to the journalism community?
Source blocks are short paragraphs at the end of an article or blog post that summarize the sources of information that were cited or consulted. Here's the format:
Sources cited, referenced, or consulted: Thestandard.com, Eatsleeppublish.com, an email from Jason Preston.
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