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Assignment Zero

Published in Wired News.
Check out this 7-minute interview with Jay Rosen. Or watch the full presentation at the Berkman Center, also available in MP3, or this five part nicely edited
series.
As Assignment Zero comes to a rolling halt, discussion this week is focusing on the lessons learned. And rightfully so — that was the point of the project in the first place.
Here are some great reactions to Jeff Howe’s original article which ran in wired.
* Assignment Zero Lesson #1: Figure out a way to engage participants as soon as they show up.”
And I’m sure there is more: If you find a good piece of analysis — please leave a comment.
Derek Powazek’s Did Assignment Zero work? It’s an interesting take on AZ.
PJNet.org Interview with Jay Rosen on Assignment Zero
I just posted an interview with Jay Rosen at PNet.org about his just finished Assignment Zero crowdsourcing experiment and his upcoming Off the Bus with the Huffington Post. Find out the lesson he learned from Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales.