<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Yishi Zuo <<a href="mailto:yishizuo@gmail.com">yishizuo@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Wiki-Style Journalism Start-Up</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">19 januari 2015 17:09:31 CET<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><br></span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hello – I am a fan of the work of the Institute of Network Cultures. I am
especially interested in the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative, and I’ve done
a lot of research of my own on 1) the rise of Wikipedia and 2) the problems
facing Wikipedia today. <span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">I think
that we have some shared interests, and you may be interested in a project that
I am working on.</span></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; ">I am working on a start-up called Wikispective
that should help solve some of the contextual limitations and biases in
journalism today. I am attempting to create a new platform for explanatory /
opinion journalism. Wikispective will be a crowdsourced, community-based
approach. The concept is similar to a Wikipedia for controversial problems,
with some additions and tweaks.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; ">The website is being built and a prototype will
be ready in the first half of 2015.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; ">If you are interested, I would love to share
more details and hear your opinion. If not, no worries, I will send you a link
once the website is up.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; ">Best,</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">-Yishi</span></p></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>