Monday Round-Up

Lauren's out for the afternoon, so I'm covering today's update. - Amanda

* Cha-Cha-Changes. David's in the middle of introducing new versions of our topic pages. Take a look at this one for an example of what's to come. These pages should do a much better job at demonstrating who's working on what and what's going on. They aren't 100 percent right now, so as they say in construction, please excuse the mess.

* Tip-offs. Editor Michele points contributors to News University's online journalism classes, like "The Interview" and "The Lead Lab." Paul Spinrad, Sellaband editor, shares his 'secret ripe' for interviews.

* "Wikipedia famously declared that comedian Sinbad was dead,..." begins Michael Ho's Citizendium piece that he's posted for community review. Over the weekend several members offered feedback, or as Lauren put it, offered to "be his cat." Curious what she meant by that? Take a look at the thread here.

* From one crowd to another. Neil Moore of AZ - also the director of community relations at Indiana University's School of Informatics - interviewed Jarvis by email over the weekend. This morning Jarvis posted Neil's questions and his answers, saying "If you have better answers — or better questions — please join in." Jarvis is still open to answering more questions. A good journalist always comes with follow up questions. Is there anything in the interview that you didn't see asked of Jarvis that you think should have been? Let us know. Or perhaps you want to add to our pool of knowledge of Jarvis to better digest these answers, you can report on that here.

* Rolling out... a blogroll. We've been slow to focus on a site feature like the blogroll, that usual online staple that's responsible for demonstrating link love. Tish's finishing up putting together some links and has also been jumping into online discussions about Assignment Zero. Tell her what you think should be on the blogroll by leaving a comment on her post. Or, If you see something you think we should be aware of (or respond to!), please ping Tish at tish.newassignment AT gmail.com or comnet on her blog.

* Wikifying the news. RWilliamKing timelines the L.A. Times Wikitorial experiment. Do you know anything about the experiment? Tell him on the post.