Wired News: Citizen Journalism Wants You!
Wired News: Citizen Journalism Wants You!
Although lately all I’ve done here is post links I find and put a rather 2 cent opinion around the link I may have found something to fuel me to add more than my 2 cents I may go up to 4 cents someday, yes I dream big. This is a site that may give a bigger audience to write stories that effect us all. It’s a little wider than Wikipedia but not so wide as to miss the point of whatever subject it’s reporting on. If you think you have something to add check them out and pay attention when they publish something on the web.
To summarize:
Can large groups of widely scattered people, working together voluntarily on the net, report on something happening in their world right now, and by dividing the work wisely tell the story more completely, while hitting high standards in truth, accuracy and free expression?
…If there’s a piece of it you’re especially interested in — Assignment Zero interviews Jimmy Wales about the social architecture that makes Wikipedia work (a piece we will do — then you can work on it with others at our site, and maybe get the byline, even though everyone else gets (some) credit, too.
…I suggested to Evan a big, sprawling, pro-am, people-powered report on all the various forms of crowdsourcing and peer production now popping up across the social landscape, as the tools for online collaboration keep improving and people find new uses for the web.
…I wanted to cast a wide net, from well-publicized cases like Wikipedia, Linux software and the Mozilla browser, to less familiar examples like community patent review or open-source spying, newer ventures like open-source footware, or the crowdsourcing of consumer electronics, along with open-call T-shirt design and efficient collaboration among knitters, which is peer production, too.
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