Michael Shaw, reporter for Assignment Zero

Michael Shaw is the kind of guy you want to go to a ballgame with and drink a couple of beers and discuss the meaning of life. Michael is guaranteed to put a smile on your face inside of 5 minutes of knowing him. He is a reporter for Assignment Zero, and I spoke to him in conjunction with a story that he was doing for Assignment Zero, which is a text book example of what Dan Gillmor calls "distributed journalism" in his book, We the Media>. Assignment Zero uses pro-am journalists like Mike Shaw to get stories that the mainstream media can't or won't cover. At the time that I met him, Mike was gathering information about the influence of Free Open Source Software on politics. This still was taken from footage shot on 15 April 2007 at a public baseball park in San Francisco, California. The brown building behind Michael to his left is the Kipp San Francisco Bay Academy, which is the public middle school that the DTP crew has been supporting with Free Open Source Software.

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