Subject: Re: Welcome to Project PM
From: Mano Singham <mano.singham@case.edu>
Date: 7/6/10, 11:24
To: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>

Hi Clark,

Thanks for the invitation. I have signed on and will check out the site for a while to get a better sense of it before posting.

I have been reading about Project PM and discussed it with Barrett on the phone. I look forward to participating in this new venture and hope I can be of some use.

Best wishes,

Mano


Mano Singham, Director
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On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Clark Robinson wrote:

Hello, Prof. Singham,

My name's Clark Robinson; I am working with Barrett Brown on Project PM. I am a retired lawyer helping him with administrative tasks. I am copying Scott Mintz, who is also working closely with Barrett.

I was pleased to hear from Barrett that you may join Project PM as a blogger.

Here is a link to our group blog, http://workshoppm.blogspot.com/ , which is a forum for those of us interested in developing Project PM. This is not Project PM itself; it is just a planning instrument. I will also send you separately an invitation to enable you to post material to this blog.  You will need a Google mail account to accomplish the latter. 

I recommend you get author status on the workshop blog, even if you don't think you will use it immediately.

If you click back into the "older posts," you will find a list of links to various articles Barrett has written which provide interesting background for the project.  A couple of these links also give a foretaste of his book coming out later this summer (the ones with the names of NYT pundits in the link). If you want more to read, you can get Michael Hastings book, I Lost My Love in Bagdad, from Amazon.   A blog I read is Unreported, by Allison Kilkenny, who focuses on stories not getting the attention they deserve in other media. Some other writers I read on True/Slant, where Barrett blogs, are Mark Adomanis, who is gaining stature as an expert on Russia, and of course Charles Johnson, who reports on the activities of the extreme right. These writers have also expressed interest in joining Project PM when it starts up later this year.

You will also see on the blog that we are talking about applying the underlying concepts of Project PM to charitable work and to journalism about science, and some of the posts on the workshop blog relate to those sub-projects.

We have been paying attention to how we work as a group, and e-mail appears to be the interaction tool of choice for many of us, so don't hesitate to send us mail.

Clark Robinson
Chicago, IL
217 722-8680