daniel sinker • My Projects

Dan Sinker heads up the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project for Mozilla. From 2008-2011 he taught in the journalism department at Columbia College Chicago where he focused on entrepreneurial journalism and the mobile web. He is the author of the popular @MayorEmanuel twitter account and is the creator of the election tracker the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard, the mobile storytelling project CellStories, and was the founding editor of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet until its closure in 2007. He is the editor of We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected interviews and was a 2007-08 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He occasionally blogs about media for the Huffington Post.

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My Projects

ongoing projects

quaxelrod.com: the @MayorEmanuel Archive.
cellstories: Mobile Story Publishing Project
Chicago Mayoral Scorecard: Tracker and Aggregator for the 2011 Mayor’s Race.
All News Evanston: Aggregating Local News Since 2010.
the huffington post: Occasionally I write for them.
j-incubator: Collecting My Student’s Work.

archived work

Punk Planet: 1994-2007. RIP.
2010: Living in the Future: Recreated a book from my childhood. It ended up being turned back into a real book.
Scenes from a Commute: For two years I documented my commute.
MEGO - my eyes glaze over: Thoughts on the journalism industry (defunct).
the shoestring project: A great project I hope to revisit sometime.
letters to the president: For almost a year I wrote a letter every day to George W Bush. Then I had a kid and it got really hard.