The rubber began to hit the road today with a brief but most welcome introductory call from our intrepid leader, who took it upon himself to personally answer some of the questions that many of us newbie editors didn't know and were afraid to ask (Never let them see you sweat, Even on the Internet).
First order of business is taking ownership of the topic pages to which we are currently assigned, and await further topic triage.
Of my five pages, I was able to tackle two straight away: Citizendium and Crowdsourced Answers.
They speak for themselves (I dearly hope) but there is one feature I intend to put across all my subjects -- an open invitation for anything:
You're assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to pitch an angle none of the geniuses here have thought of.
Call it the ultimate crowdsource challenge: what are we missing?
Think up a sidebar, timeline, profile, scene-setter or whatever that tells a part of the story you don't think is getting the attention it deserves.
Your reward: first dibs on doing the piece and a place in crowdsourcing journalism history.
