People-powered press

The Huffington Post is teaming up with NewAssignment.net to recruit “citizen journalists” — yep, just like you — who will be assigned to blog on the major presidential candidates in the 2008 election cycle. From the announcement:

We’ve seen what happens when the reportorial elite begins feeding off the same informational teat, and conventional wisdom becomes the order of the day (Exhibit A is, and will always be, the press’ shameful lack of questioning during the run-up to the war in Iraq). We’ve also seen what happens when members of an online community band together to pursue a story, as Josh Marshall’s did recently with the U.S. Attorneys scandal.

Applying an open-source philosophy to national political coverage could be just the shot in the arm that mainstream media needs (via TechPresident).

AppleTV

Apple releases its new InterLace Teleputer … er, AppleTV.

Unhappy hour

Wow.

Sake-rrific

While dining with some friends at Xyclo in Piedmont, I was fortunate enough to be clued in to Nigori sake, an unfiltered variety that I hadn’t had the pleasure of enjoying before. I highly recommend it. (Thx, Eliet.)