With thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the idea, here's an invitation to Tidbits readers to let the rest of us see what you see. At least what you see in the view from your cubicle/desk/office.
Sullivan pitched his View from Your Window idea to his readers May 22, and has been posting occasional reader-submitted photos, the most recent Sunday evening, ever since. The photos from around the world include dusk in Malibu and Rotterdam, 1 a.m. in Cleveland, and the shadows of Romania.
Not all of his readers are enthused about the feature, but the photos have transformed at least one guy (me) from non-reader to occasional visitor of his Daily Dish.
Below you'll see the view from the doorway of my office at Poynter, and the view from the home office window of Tidbits editor Amy Gahran. We're hoping you'll send us the views from your workspaces (as jpg files attached to e-mail), with the camera pointed either out the window or into the rest of the office. E-mail to Amy at amy@gahran.com and me at bmitch@poynter.org. We'll figure out a way to post as many as possible. Please include the names of anybody in the photo along with the date, time, place of the image. Plus your own name and the kind of work you do.
Who knows? Maybe this will generate some more swiping-of-a-good-idea by news organizations anxious to engage their readers/viewers/users in providing content interesting to people, as Gillmor and Rosen would describe them, "formerly known as the audience. "
