{"id":2121,"date":"2008-01-15T23:14:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T04:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/15\/newassignmentnet-an-overview\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T23:14:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T04:14:27","slug":"newassignmentnet-an-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/15\/newassignmentnet-an-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"NewAssignment.net: An overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave &#8220;DigiDave&#8221; Cohn, the one-man editing and assignment desk behind several NewAssignment.net projects &#8212; including Off The Bus (a joint venture in &#8220;crowdsourced&#8221; political reporting with The Huffington Post) and Assignment Zero (a joint effort with Jeff Howe of Wired magazine) &#8212; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newassignment.net\/blog\/david_cohn\/jan2008\/11\/newassignment_wh\">a great overview<\/a> of all the different projects that Jay Rosen&#8217;s brainchild is or has been involved in, including:<\/p>\n<p><strong>BeatBlogging.org<\/strong>: Reporters with thirteen news organizations have agreed to try using the Internet &#8212; including tools such as blogs and wikis &#8212;  to build a network of sources that can help them become smarter about their beat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OffTheBus.Net<\/strong>: In which motivated individuals agree to keep tabs on an election campaign and file reports to The Huffington Post and NewAssignment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ReadableLaws.com<\/strong>: A lab experiment aimed at using a wiki to turn legal jargon into plain English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assignment Zero<\/strong>: The project with Wired looked at the phenomenon of &#8220;crowdsourcing&#8221; through interviews and feature stories, and while it wasn&#8217;t a big success it was a learning experience according to Dave and Jay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polling Place Photo Project<\/strong>: A lab experiment that saw people from all over the U.S. track what their polling place looked like on Super Tuesday, and this year was copied by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Some great ideas from Jay and Dave and the rest of the NewAssignment team &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newassignment.net\/blog\/david_cohn\/jan2008\/11\/newassignment_wh\">plenty<\/a> to look forward to in 2008.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave &#8220;DigiDave&#8221; Cohn, the one-man editing and assignment desk behind several NewAssignment.net projects &#8212; including Off The Bus (a joint venture in &#8220;crowdsourced&#8221; political reporting with The Huffington Post) and Assignment Zero (a joint effort with Jeff Howe of Wired magazine) &#8212; has a great overview of all the different projects that Jay Rosen&#8217;s brainchild &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/15\/newassignmentnet-an-overview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NewAssignment.net: An overview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}