An interesting case of blog-coordinated collective action occurred last night, when the Talking Points Memo blog asked readers to help with sifting an enormous heap of political documents.

The blog team set up a light mechanism for identifying chunks of work:

to make it efficient and comprehensible, we’ll have a system. As you can see on the House Judiciary Committee’s website, they’ve begun reproducing 50-page pdfs of the documents with a simple numbering system, 3-19-2007 DOJ-Released Documents 1-1, then 1-2, then 1-3, etc. So pick a pdf, any pdf and give it a look. If you find something interesting (or damning), then tell us about it in the comment thread below.

Please begin your comment with the pdf number and please provide the page number of the pdf. ..

(via FireDogLake)