I've kind of gone back and forth about this whole AZ thing. Started off excited then got really frustrated with how my ideas were ignored, how I was told "This project's full," that kind of thing. But then the editors seemed to realize things were going frustratingly for people. I'm a big fan of the specific tasks and the broken down theme weeks and all that. It feels like what I'm doing is actually useful and not just a make-work project.
And now I've got my first Q&A up. I lucked out talking to Karim Lakhani, as he was easy to get on the phone and knew why I'd be asking him about stuff. Hell, it was only after the interview was over tht he asked about some of the details on how it was going to be used, and how it would end up in Wired.
I'd also done a bit of stuff for the Citizendium piece the other week, and for it I got an Additional Reporting in the Wired story. It's kind of weird to get a credit for a bunch of work that wasn't used. I mean, there's a reference to say that comparing Citizendium and Wikipedia isn't really fair, which is what I found out. It's just that my participation was confirming a sentence. Not exactly the kind of thing I'd feel right about putting on the ol' CV.
It's funny because it really is this "Do the work, get the recognition" kind of system, and I'm trying to parlay that into a more traditional "We'll trust you to do stuff in the future based on what you've done in the past" kind of situation so I can get paid eventually. Trying to get a financial return on the investment in my degree.
