Here's a question: why are we still consuming the news like it's 1899? Enter the Moby Dick Project.

Some of the gold that comes out of this 'prototype-athon' will be reflections like Jay Rosen's "three different kinds of context we're missing", but we thought the experience of getting into that practical, user-centred headspace was valuable in itself. These are our (incomplete) visual notes. The sketches are our own except for the z-rack, which we borrowed from here. We want one of these, by the way!

Props to Ben Huh, Stanford University and volunteers, the Knight Foundation and the Knight-Mozilla news partnership for creating something amazing. We enjoyed working with all of the people who attended and we're looking forward to bringing the spirit of prototyping back home.

You can see the video pitches here. More to come! Follow updates or send along your feedback to @openjo.