Use your awesome tech powers to help save journalism

Not on the list (yet), but DocumentCloud is also hiring news-conscious hackers to help work on reader annotations, visualizations, text analysis -- for the documents behind the news -- and then open-source it all.<p><a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/with-its-newest-round-of-knight-funding-doccloud-will-figure-out-how-to-scale-reader-annotations/" rel="nofollow">http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/07/with-its-newest-round-of-kn...</a><p><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/opensource" rel="nofollow">https://www.documentcloud.org/opensource</a><p>What documents, you may be asking ... well, current events like:<p><a href="http://documents.latimes.com/usa-v-aaron-swartz/" rel="nofollow">http://documents.latimes.com/usa-v-aaron-swartz/</a><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/jul/15/rebekah-brooks-resignation-document" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2011/jul/15/rebe...</a><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8634372/Phone-hacking-phone-calls-voicemails-and-emails-in-the-News-of-the-World.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8634372...</a><p>If you're interested, you can reach me at jeremy at documentcloud . org.

The thought that anyone should need to save a business model is mind-boggling to me. If it works, it'll make money. If it doesn't make money, people don't want it enough.<p>It's not like there are only a few newspapers in this country and that they could go extinct while people still want to buy them.

So I can go get a job at a failing business, try my best to fight through bureaucracy and get people to rethink how they've done things, for, I don't know, a century, and have my work not understood or appreciated? Awesome!