Project PM announcement/manifesto

You may recall the project I mentioned in the last couple paragraphs of the Charles Johnson piece I wrote for you three months back. It'll be launching later this summer, and though I've put out a bit of info on it for recruiting purposes, I haven't yet put out the formal announcement manifesto; I'll give you first crack at it if you'd like to take a look. It's called Project PM, and will consist of two networks, a media network and a governing network, both of which make use of software that's being designed for the purpose by the fellow who oversaw the software for Hearst's upcoming "digital paper" PDA and who also runs databases for Deutschbank. I've designed the media network in such a way as to avoid a couple of the problems that inevitably plague aggregators and content creators/distributors like reddit and Huffington Post. Were we to launch today, we'd have several hundred thousand unique readers a month, as we've got popular bloggers like Johnson and Allison Kilkenny in addition to a couple of more traditional journalists like former Newsweek Baghdad correspondent Michael Hastings on board already, and will be recruiting quite a few more soon; the network is designed to grow by way of invitation from existing participants, and information is sent throughout the network by way of pressing a single button associated with either one's own piece or a piece that has reached them from another participant, which is thereby sent to each other person to whom the contributor is connected. So you have some number of unusually significant and high-quality pieces being evaluated and perpetuated by some smaller number of particularly clever commentators, and a reader/user has a widget which automatically displays any piece that's been "pushed forward" by the bloggers 10 or 50 times or whatever the user sets it for; the end result should be a vastly improved means of information flow.

Let me know if you'd be interested in taking a look at the piece when it's finished.