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Information Week - MixedInk Helps Large Groups Find A Common Voice
"MixedInk is an interesting idea executed well, and I look forward to see what they have in store for the future."
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WebProNews - Internet Presents Collaborative Inauguration
"Slate's collaborative inauguration speech is heavy with a sense of unity and the free market of ideas, and even, in certain places, it carries that moving rising rhythmic cadence the great speeches of history carry."
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The SanFrancisco Chronicle - Inaugural Address: The People Have Spoken
"Speechwriting by committee is usually the recipe for disaster, but Slate.com has managed to make it work."
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Creative Commons - MixedInk CC-Licensed Large Scale Document Collaboration
"MixedInk keeps this type of collaboration open and legally sound by requiring any documents created on the site to be released under a CC BY-SA license. This serves a practical purpose - the articles written offer no restrictions in regards to quoting or editing as long as the original author is credited - and also serves the auxiliary purpose of keeping the MixedInk community open and free, ensuring there are no legal barriers for creating the best content possible."
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The Oldest Living Digital Marketer - MixedInk and the Crowd Doc!
"Now here's a product I totally believe in...I found it compelling and addictive. First, because I love words and ideas, and second because the design is so pleasant and intuitive. Submit, read, vote, it's all pretty darned rewarding and entertaining. based upon the activity level I saw on the Slate site, it appears as if the concept is compelling to more than just me."
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Poynter Online - Political Data-as-Journalism Projects from Slate, the St. Petersburg Times and CQ
"It's a fascinating project."
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Poynter Online - MixedInk: Connecting Communities through Collaboration
"Today -- with the right tools -- creating, sharing, connecting and communicating can be decentralized and organized informally. MixedInk seems to be one of those tools."
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The Ed Techie - MixedInk - affordances for collaboration?
"This has collaborative assessment written all over it. You can easily imagine setting a group assignment and using MixedInk to produce it. Students can jointly create the document, and the role of each contributer is clearly visible. This is beginning to get at creating real affordances for collaboration, which are often lacking in the standard wiki."
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The Inquisitr - MixedInk: Wiki Meets Digg
"MixedInk aims to help users overcome the noise created by multiple contributions by adding a voting element to each user generated contribution."
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Christian Science Monitor - Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor Staff
"If you've ever wanted to be a presidential speechwriter, it's time to test your soaring rhetoric - with the help of Lincoln, JFK, and all the other presidents."
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Web Worker Daily - MixedInk: Online Collaborative Writing
"faster than emailing drafts back and forth"
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SocialTimes - MixedInk is Digg for Collaborative Writers
"such a service can be used far beyond inaugural addresses or newspaper articles to include nearly every aspect of traditional media both online and offline"
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SmartMobs - The mob writes a letter together, smart
"more outcome oriented than a wiki"
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Teachr 2.0 - MixedInk: Write democratically
"Collaboration in all forms is an essential skill and this service could be a great way to inspire and direct students to think about a given topic. The rating system encourages analysis of existing ideas and the drafting process encourages synthesis."
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KillerStartups - MixedInk.com - Free Collaborative Writing Tool
"It makes collaborative writing processes a tangible reality."
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TechCrunch - MixedInk for collaborative group statements
"it could become a great alternative to traditional Wiki systems"
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Huffington Post - MixedInk for collaborative group statements
"it could be a real step toward online democracy"
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The New York Observer - Obama's Internet Adventure: What's This Transparent Government Gonna Look Like, Anyway?
"It's a collaborative environment where people can begin to work out what a solution is, and that becomes a compelling part of what this participation could be." - Lawrence Lessig
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TechPresident - Emergent Governance: Who Needs Bees When the Grassroots Swarm the White House
"The approach is really quite ingenious."
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ABCNews - Bloggers Vie for More Influence in Official Party Biz
"It's a powerful tool for any ground-up, bottoms-up initiative that an Obama administration might want to initiate... an extremely powerful and efficient tool to involve the grass roots in the planning process." - Michael Yaki, Director DNC/Obama National Platform Committee
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Wired - Democrats' 2008 Party Platform Recognizes Growing Role of Internet in Shaping Life, And Policy
"a new online collaborative document authoring tool that combines the idea of a wiki with a social networking rating system like Digg... it could have the potential effect of fundamentally altering the nature of who gets to say what the party stands for."
"The broader picture here is that this is a tool that's interactive, and that enables multiple kinds of individuals from multiple backgrounds and geographies to get involved together, and that's a powerful concept," - Jerome Armstrong, MyDD
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TechPresident - Borrowing Words Helps Netroots Reach Consensus
"Does MixedInk point to a way that governing that effectively harnesses the intelligence and energy of bigger groups than we're used to? It might offer some direction to a campaign like Obama's that claims to tap into the wisdom of, for example, more than 300 foreign policy advisors. Managing all that smarts can't be easy."
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