Links: 12-12-2007

Readable Laws: A Wiki Taking Legalese and Turning it into Plain English.

News related to Chris Messina (via Beatblogging):

Gigaom has a good introduction to a proposal from Chris Messina to turn WordPress into an open social network he calls DiSo. He calls the project that he is working on with Steve Ivy and  Will Norris a network built "inside-out."

Also see: A Digg Powered by Journalists:

Having sources who you rely on as "news-recommenders," never hurt.  There is editorial value in serving up the best links, but a good link-blogger will tell you – it takes time and effort. Just ask Romenesko. But with social bookmarking you can mimc Eyebeam Reblog,
and get great links form a  volunteer effort. That’s what Digg is – a
space where volunteers find links in their expertise area and share
them.

This is all related to a new phenomena that could become more common
for the networked journalist: Sharing links and information with
journalists in other news organizations.

Why don’t reporters who are on the same beat share more information?

And Finally: Geeks Doing Good a call to SF Geeks to volunteer 12-29-07

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