In theory, 30 people (or more) should be more eloquent, more credible, and more powerful together than they would be apart. That’s one of the basic principles the progressive blogosphere was built on...right?
With a couple of friends, I’m working on a democratic, web-based collaborative writing tool that depends entirely on this idea. It allows really big groups of people to express collective opinions. The site is called MixedInk – and we think it’s a pretty cool project.
This diary is meant to share the results of our largest test to date, and to get your thoughts on how well it worked. Over the last few days we asked about 30 of our friends to use the tool to help write an editorial explaining why Barack Obama shouldn’t choose Hillary Clinton as his VP. (We gave people a few topics to choose from, and this is the one where there seemed to be broadest interest and agreement.)
Here’s what they wrote together:
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