StoryTelling for New Media

For Thursday you need to read about Assignment Zero. There is a great deal written about this on the web, just try a google search and you will see. But, at the very least you should read the following pieces for our discussion. Note, this project has come to a close, so we can’t participate, but one could think about this as a future Smart Mob way to do journalism.

• The Assignment Zero About Page and the How This Works Page
• The Intro from Jay Rosen
• Open Source Journalism Article produced from the project.
• The Open Book article about crowd sourcing fiction.
• And Did Assignment Zero Fail a article written at the completion of the project.

Write a post to your blog, by Wed. at midnight that discusses your thoughts/impressions of Assignment Zero. (Recall that good writing involves being focused, so try to talk about one specific think from your reading rather than a whole sweeping take on Assignment Zero.)