Props to my first contributor here, Michael Shaw.
He's taken the open source politics ball and is running with it. I'm running after him and learning a lot in the process. For instance, where is the best place to hash out the initial reporting on Open Source Politics? We started with email, where we he unleashed his findings and we discussed how to proceed. After we went back and forth a bunch I thought maybe we should take some of his good reporting public, so some of his research now appears inside the reporting pages of the Open Source Political Parties.
I'm still not sure where to have these reporter/editor back and forths; Amanda and David think this blog would be a good place, just like a desk in a newsroom, where people stop by to talk about stories and other people listen in if they want to. So I'll try that, too. It's all part of the experiment.
