Poynter Online: Introducing MixedInk to connect communities through online collaboration
January 14th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick
Amy Gahran flags up MixedInk, a new ‘collaboration application’, which ‘might help journalists, news organisations, activists and citizen journalists work with each other and with their communities.’
Users share texts (licensed through Creative Commons) using the MixedInk application, which is something between a wiki, an online forum, a text editor – with a crowd rating element.
“As you write in MixedInk, it searches all other entries and displays text that is similar to yours. While writing, users can view, copy, edit and remix any text that’s been added to the site,” Gahran explains. Full story...
Tags: Amy Gahran, creative commons, mixedink, MixedInk application, online collaboration, online forum, poyntor, text editor
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