OSP Ideas

OSP Ideas: A lot of ideas come through our team. Most of these ideas get lost after a round of discussions. There should be a way to tap this latent idea base. I have been thinking on this for some time. Today Raja was explaining me the popularity that Rajesh Jain's blog Emergic has achieved. This led to our discussing whether blogs are going to replace newspapers. I felt not, as even now TV has not been able to replace Radio, and 24 hrs news channels have not been able to replace newspapers. So an idea was born. Why not start a newspaper with content created entirely out of blogs. From today, we have a new initiative called OSP Ideas which will try to concretize the latent ideas of our people.

OSP Ideas will have a page in our web-site. There would be multiple stages. Concept stage, Pilot Implementation stage, funding solicing stage and full implementation stage. It would be interesting to see what emerges out of OSP Ideas.

We can have a wiki page created for OSP Ideas which could be freely editable by employees. Over a period of time, we will develop OSP Ideas and give it a formal form.

Coming back to Blog based newspaper: such a newspaper could encompass content which could be better than the best of staff created contents in world's best newspapers. That would be the key differentiator, and critical success factor for such an initiative. Copyrights would be a key issue. Right now the issue of copyrights in blog world has not been debated. It is assumed that content in blog is freely shareable. But if subsequently the legal world establishes that copyrights would be implicitly owned the author, a part of revenues will have to be shared with the authors whose content has been published. The payments could depend on a content rating scheme.