Assignment Zero Report

Back in march I was at the Social Media club for a talk by Jay Rosen on Asignment Zero. Now Wired, their partners in this venture, have a report on the results of the project.
Citizen media initiatives are a hot topic in the media, and the new project, christened Assignment Zero, was widely reported. The New York Times gave it a lengthy, if skeptical, treatment. Would the crowd prove too tough to manage, the reporter asked?
Six months later, the jury is in, and the answer is mostly yes. Although Assignment Zero produced a strong body of work, consisting …read more