Hey all,
Here's a quick & fast update from the Culture corner here at AZ. After a great chat with Jay Rosen on Friday, we've decided to reign in our coverage and focus focus on two key topic areas:
• Crowdsourced Film
• Crowdsourced Music
I'm glad to see that Jeff Howe and Ruslan Kulski are on board to work on film coverage. Ruslan's been busy gathering information and doing some initial writing on the subject - and I'm sure there will be much more to come!
On the music front, David Cohn and I were exchanging a few ideas earlier in the week that have pointed us toward a few interesting sites that interpret crowdsourcing the creation, promotion, and distribution of music. We'll be putting together a topic page over the next few days and I'm hoping to get some contributors rolling on some assignments as soon as we've got our nice new topic pages decorated with some appropriate text, key links, and upcoming plans.
CP music & culture writer/editor Angela Pacienza will also be working with our emerging team as our culture crew begins to consolidate its efforts on some initial tasks. Time permitting, we may also extend our reach to include a collaborative concentration on Current TV with Media & Publishing Editor Michele McLellan...pending a bit of further inquiry into how effectively Current TV have put their crowdsourcing plans into action.
Our strategic outreach work continues too - as I've put out a call for culture contributors to AZ over at the excellent crowdsourcing news site NowPublic.com. Founder Michael Tippett is behind our efforts and site editor Mark Schneider is eager to see where we can take this cross-collaboration. With our 900+ contributors and NP's growing international roster of 80,000+ members, we're bound to find some points of shared interest. Looking forward to see what comes from it!
Please don't hesitate to contact me jarrett.newassignment@gmail.com if you're interested in getting on board - or if you've got ideas for stories within either of the admittedly large topic areas we'll be covering.
More soon!
JM
