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Fellow blogger Ron Goodwyne introduces this new blog:

The project is called Ft. Hard Knox and you can find it at www.FortHardKnox.com. Of course you’ll find excellent conservative commentary and opinion there but that is not its primary purpose. It is designed to combine blogging, wikkis and message boards in one platform to involve people who are not necessarily web savvy.

Some of the authors on 1389 Mobile Blog will be helping out at Ft. Hard Knox as well.

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In an earlier post, this blog invited readers to take a look at a new project called Assignment Zero.

This project is billed as a “pro-am” collaboration between Wired.com and NewAssignment.net. Its first effort, which explores “crowdsourcing,” seems to be rather self-referential!

While it is still a month away from completion, here’s a preview: Wiki Innovators Rethink Openness.

Check it out, then let us know what you think!

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By JennSierra

I’m currently in the final stages of my Ph.D. program (Instructional Design for Online Learning), and the topic I’ve chosen for my dissertation is “The Learner Profile for an Online Social Networker.” My particular area of interest for research is the role of Web 2.0 in online education and training.

When I explain this to friends and acquaintances, the question inevitably arises, “So, what, exactly, is Web 2.0, anyway?” Good question. The best person to answer this question is Tim O’Reilly, the person who coined the term. For his explanation, see What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software.

Web 2.0 affects our lives online in the form of blogs, online citizen journalism sites (social news), wiki’s, folksonomies, social networking sites, collaborative bookmarking sites, podcasts, aggregators (e.g., RSS), semantic web, collaborative software, and other online scenarios in which users create and share content such as graphics, news, information, technology, creative writing, software, photos, and videos. The original World Wide Web gave us the opportunity to share information by posting what we had to say, and by reading what others had to say. Web 2.0 takes that concept to the next level, by giving us the opportunity to collectively influence what information is available and how the information is distributed to ourselves and others.

Because of Web 2.0 technology, there is a growing body of knowledge online that is taking on a life of its own, and it is very influential. If we are interested in the accuracy of the information that is being distributed online, we need to have a voice in this increasingly important global discussion. We need to understand and utilize Web 2.0 if we want this body of knowledge to at least partially reflect our values, attitudes, respect for history, and vision for the future.

JennSierra

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Here’s your chance to have your say!

Hi,

I’m David Cohn, aka Digidave on Digg and Netscape — and I often write about social news sites for Wired, NewAssignment or my blog.

I’m writing to you because I know you are interested in social news sites like Stumbled Upon, Reddit, and others.

And that’s exactly what we are trying to cover at Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired — and you can help. With just 10 minutes of your time, you might just end up in Wired.

We are trying to do networked journalism — anything you contribute will be like notes on a reporters notebook. Everything is licenced under the creative commons — and a Wired magazine writer, Jeff Howe, will produce a large feature using this reporting. If he uses anything you produced, he will link back and give you credit. He may even quote you — who knows.

In addition to research, we also have writing assignments — and Wired has agreed that any writing assignments that meet their editorial standards could get published on Wired news, so it might be a neat way to become a writer for Wired. You can contribute in 10 minutes — or if you have more time, you can pick up a writing assignment.

And one of the topics that we are covering is ” Social News Sites: The Crowd is the Editor, Duking it Out Over the Day’s Top Stories.” It’s an interesting story, no? Editors used to decide what the most important news of the day was. Now, collectively we decide - and we can decide by whatever measures we want.

It’s real easy to contribute — Just visit this page and click to join the team.

The editor of this page is Christine Riedel, a senior news producer at AOL. And there are already people who have signed up to be members of the team.

If social news sites aren’t your thing, we have other topics (from music, to cars, science and film). You can see the entire story shaping up from the homepage just under the latest blog post, or you can search by your interest here.

So what are we looking for? We have specific assignments. Questions about weaving together a timeline of Digg, or looking for other examples of social news sites, explaining what Netscape’s meta-journalism is — Anything is helpful. You can even just re-submit old blog posts that you have written as filed reporting.

Why? Not only to get your name in Wired (or any other blog or news organization that also dives into our reporting) — the real reason why to do it — because we are trying to figure something out. Social news sites proved that people want to engage with the news — directly. Well, here is a way to engage in it too — by helping to produce it.

And if you have a blog — why not invite your readers to help you out too? It’s an interesting way to engage your readers in a new way. Instead of telling them what’s important, you will be inviting them to join you in an ongoing investigation. It will be a challenge in some sense, can you and your readers come together to tackle a specific subject together? You will meet them on a new playing field — and I bet they’ll appreciate that.

Anyways. If you have questions or concerns or anything of that nature — don’t hesitate to email me: david.newassignment@gmail.com

This is a project I really believe in (and I know it can work) — and as someone that has been swept into social bookmarking for the same reason — I think you might find some value in it too.

Best,
David Cohn
dcohn1@gmail.com
AssignmentZero.com
Digidave.org

Update: First Take on Assignment Zero

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