I was one of the creators of Facebook's Instant Articles. At that time, I had concerns about the future of publishing; namely, that publishers were struggling to survive whereas networks -- like Facebook -- had too much control over what was being seen and shared.<p>With Instant Articles in the works and things like Apple News, AMP, and Snapchat Discover on the horizon, journalists needed new tools to do their job effectively.<p>The recent rash of fake news and propaganda -- and the half-hearted efforts to stem its spread -- are evidence that these tools still don't exist. And as someone who has seen behind the curtain, it's pretty clear that these tools are a ways off.<p>A year or two ago, I began working on a simple specification that attempted to provide an "open web" approach to decentralized publishing. It defined a structure for representing content and journalistic metadata. More importantly, it did so in a way that would be amenable to open collaboration by technologists and journalists, alike.<p>It wasn't and isn't "the" answer. It's more of a jumping off point.<p>What's missing, in my opinion, is community: engineers and journalists coming together to build open, free tools that aren't married to Facebook or Google or Twitter. Tools that are designed for journalists and not advertisers or marketers.<p>To that end, I wanted to invite the community here to take a look at what I've scraped together. Perhaps it can, at the least, form the basis of a discussion about the future of publishing on the open web.<p>If you'd like to be added as a contributor, feel free to let me know.<p>----<p><i></i>Link:<i></i>
http://openpublishing.github.io/<p><i></i>TL;DR -- publishing has radically changed and fake news is a symptom that journalism hasn't caught up. We should try to fix it. Here's a rough start.<i></i>