We hadn’t publicized the project on our website because we were initially only extending invitations via traditional netroots channels – but it’ll be up there soon.

Just want to clarify a bit.

In brief, MixedInk works as follows:
- An organizer sets up a topic to address or a text to create and invites a community to contribute.
- People submit their ideas, edit each others’ ideas, and mix and match different versions to create new ones.
- People rate versions on a scale of 1 to 10, leading the best ideas rise to the top and get fused together.
- The top rated version in the end captures the community’s point of view.

Unlike a wiki, this process enables large numbers of people to write at once. The text that’s created is guaranteed to represent the entire group rather than simply the most recent editor. Even with controversial material, MixedInk can be totally open without devolving into back-and-forth edit wars. Lastly, since very few people see the bad stuff, there’s less incentive for spam and abuse of the sort that ruined the LA Times wikitorial project.

I very much agree with you about our need for critical mass – a wiki is indeed OK for small, like-minded groups. We’ll be spending our time in the near future developing our own community and finding partners to work with who already have large communities.

Any additional thoughts from you or your readers, are welcome at david [at] mixedink [dot] com!