SubscribeLessons from Spot.us
January 24, 2009 at 9:25 p.m.
I'm about to leave the warm embrace of the Bay Area and in doing so, take myself out of the jurisdiction of Spot.us. I was lucky enough to meet David Cohn when the San Jose Mercury News opened its newsroom for CopyCamp last year, and he suggested I pitch something in his alpha phase. At that point it was just a simple wiki, The Point and David's seemingly-infinite energy.
In December, when Spot.us launched officially with its new site and its own mechanisms for handling donations, my story was published and republished and spread farther than ...
Help me write about California, cement and global warming
July 30, 2008 at 1:05 a.m.
I have an ongoing fascination with issues that are, to most people, boring as hell. I'm fascinated with school reform, demographics, infrastructure, and in all cases, data.
The problem with such stories, from a freelance perspective, is that they're tough (for me) to make interesting enough to sell, even if they're really important.
Fortunately, I met up with David Cohn at CopyCamp in San Jose last month, and he encouraged me to put a pitch up on Spot.us, his new project to crowdfund local investigative reporting (more info here). Here's what I want to write ...
