OffTheBus.Net Hires Two People Who Know How to Organize 200 - By Jay Rosen

Excerpt:
"The design we're planning to go with for our mid-July launch (subject to change, of course) features...
* Open blogging platform with a filter-to-the-front-page system for culling the best stuff;
* Page editors (starting with one front page) who mix the best blog posts with headlines from campaign '08 and incoming video and audio.
* A free-floating corps of OffTheBus bloggers, some of whom may wish to track particular candidates, or develop specialties and beats, though there is no requirement that they do so.
* A larger pool of participants (the OffTheBus contact list) who are willing and able to collaborate in occasional acts of distributed reporting; they may or may not use their blogs much.
* A network of volunteers with usable expertise (in election law, say, or the purchase of advertising time) who are willing to help our bloggers and advise on projects, organized as a searchable data base.
* Good quality disclosure forms and routines that make it make it crystal clear where a contributor is coming from, who she is, and is for.
* Pro editors and writers who volunteer to mentor and consult with talented bloggers as they are spotted bublbing up from OffTheBus personal blogs."

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