Cohn''s bio from Digidave.org:
His first big break in journalism was writing for Wired. By following technology, specifically the build up of Web 2.0 after the first bust, David realized many of the trends he was following can and should be applied to journalism.
As a result David has worked with pioneering journalism bloggers like Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis. He helped Jeff Howe, who coined the phrase "crowdsourcing," on his upcoming book and he continues to rely on his otherwise useless knowledge of the Web to help develop the emerging practice of open source journalism, be it as a contributing editor at NewsTrust.net or just writing his personal thoughts in this blog.
You can read his blog entries for New Assignment.net here.
For a list of most of his clips from Wired News, go here.
And to take a look at Jeff Howe writing about crowdsourcing (Cohn was research assistant on Howe''s book titled Crowdsourcing), you can check it out here.
ALSO:
Cohn''s personal blog, digidave.
Cohn''s blog on spot.us.
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An August 23, 2008 NY Times article covers Spot.us: "Crowd Funding: A different Way to Pay for the News You Want."
From the Knight News Challenge Grant page:
The 2009 Knight News Challenge is year three of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations, and information distribution and visualization.
Click under winners to read the write up on Cohn.