AZ: Nonfiction and a Kick in the Pants

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Alright ya'll, here's the deal. Everyone is very excited about working with Assignment Zero but nobody is very sure where to start - well, let's get this sorted out.

Of the three projects assigned to newsvine, I'm personally most interested in nonfiction books; please note that the word "book" is used loosely, because at least in my mind it includes something like wikipedia. What i'm interested in exploring is the way a nonfiction work (documentary, criticism, history etc) can be tackled using crowdsourcing.

So, if you want to help, here's what you do:

1. Go visit this page. If you don't yet have an assignment zero account, create one. Then go visit. Read the summary on the left.
2. On the right hand side you see a list of assignments - most of them have three little avatars next to them, this means they are group assignments. Any number of people can contribute towards them. "Write the Profile" has only a single avatar, meaning it's a job for one person.
3. Read up on each of the assignments and find one that appeals to you. Return to this comment thread and leave a comment explaining which assignment interests you and outlining what you'd like to do towards finishing that assignment. Don't worry about duplicates.
4. That's all for now - I will be in touch with you and we can discuss what to do next.

That's pretty easy, right? Look ya'll, this is all pretty abstract for me so until we actually get a few of these done and have a growing body of work to show for it I'm not gonna be entirely convinced it's worth our time - but I do think it's worth exploring. So let's give it a fair shake. Every contribution you make to AZ is first and foremost a contribution to your own column - you can publish any of this if you want to. If you are interested but have some reservations that haven't yet been addressed, leave a comment.

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