Pitch

Pitch is approximately one week old, and we’ve yet to see entries make it into the review queue. I know many of you have existing articles that are worthy of peer review… Perhaps they were first published on your blog. Perhaps you wrote them out of midnight frustration or (even worse) as an assignment for a course. For whatever reason, you’ve got good quality pieces of instructional technology writing laying around. Why not submit it for review and publication? Let’s see if we can get five articles in the review queue by January 1, 2004. What do you say?

So I was scooped by Stephen on my own project (!), but Pitch Journal is officially open for “business.” Stop by to read the first few articles and begin submitting your own material (reprints from your blog are ok) for peer-reviewed publication. Thanks to everyone for their support and interest. UPDATE: The URL (which I had forgotten earlier) is “http://pitchjournal.org/":http://pitchjournal.org

D’Arcy reminded me that we haven’t had a Pitch update in a while, so here’s a breif bit. We’ve settled on a logo, attitude, and general look and feel for the journal (see “http://pitchjournal.org/":http://pitchjournal.org/). We spent this afternoon going over user stories and working out the better part of the requirements. We’re expecting to release a MRD within the next week or so for public feedback and also to gather some support (in terms of any programming people might want to contribute). We’re still going round on php versus python, and if that can’t spark a discussion then probably nothing will.

As part of PITCH we are working on developing a clean growth path for comments attached to a published article to grow into a published article of their own. As we have envisioned many uses of trackback for this purpose, it occured to me: why isn’t there trackback SPAM? Couldn’t a malicious person send a trackback ping (which pointed to a service or product they were trying to market) to any article in any blog supporting trackback? I can hear it now, “Blammo! Instant links to my product on 100,000 sites!” ...