OneWebDay

Thanks to Spot.Us for participating in OWD.  Here’s an exciting update from their mailing list.

Hello all!!

Once again: We are still celebrating the HUGE victory of raising $2,500 from 74 contributors. The money is being used now to hire reporters who will fact-check political advertising for the upcoming SF election!

Today we are publishing the SECOND article in the series. It is no coincidence that we are publishing it on One Web Day. We recognize that this reporting would never have been funded without the web. So… thanks inter-tubes!!!!

The two reports we’ve already produced can be read now.

• Invasion of the Policy Pushers: http://blog.spot.us/2008/09/09/sf-election-truthiness-first-article-invasion-of-the-policy-pushers/
• A breakdown of all 22 propositions on this year’s SF ballot: http://blog.spot.us/2008/09/21/san-francisco-…ons-for-nov-08san-francisco-voter-propositions-for-nov-08/

Expect a third report later this week!!

We are also very happy to announce that two print organizations have approached us about re-purposing our content for their publications. This would mean that our reporting will be read by more people – furthering our goal of informing the local community before we hit the polls.

Moving forward!!!!!

The editorial team have had conversations in the last few days about pacing
these stories. We have been increasingly convinced that we’ve got to stay focused on our original mandate, which is to scrutinize ads. A regular schedule is less important if it means we will miss the ad deluge later on. We want to attack these ads opportunistically, as they come into our mailboxes. So please, save all your SF political fliers between now and Election Day and share them with us. Also, if you hear or see ads on broadcast, alert us, and we’ll try to hunt down copies.

Finally: Want to give even more? (because you are just soooo cool)

Our fourth and final pre-alpha spot.us pitch is 27% funded. We only need to find 29 more people to donate $25 each. This investigation will look into how cities in the Bay Area are planning to cope with the increase in retired people as the baby boom generation creeps into the golden years. Smart planning now could avert a public health disaster and other issues in the future.

Your donation of $25 can enable this reporting. Learn more and take action:

The Longevity Revolution: http://wiki.spot.us/longevity

Sincerely,
David Cohn
Spot.Us