Faces of Faith in America is the latest project of News 21, "a journalism experiment sponsored by the Carnegie and Knight Foundations that assign difficult stories to specifically trained journalism students to be produced in both innovative and traditional ways."

I saw it first at Boing Boing.

Cory Doctorow had this to say about them:

These student presentations are better than anything I've seen from "real" news agencies and could serve as a model for the future of interactive/online journalism.

Apparently, I've vaulted more than 210,000 places to the top of the Technorati heap! Woo-hoo!

Observe:

I promise you, folks: That is not a cheap Photoshopping trick!

However, it means the Top 100 list is seriously out of whack, because Engadget sits above Boing Boing on it, and not this humble site -- which, er, isn't in the top 100 at all.

Oh well. As long as I'm in the top 211,000, I'll be happy.

Now, the question is after reading this post, do you have more or less faith in Technorati?

Update

It was a very brief but glorious time at the top of the Technorati heap. I was getting the best tables in restaurants. Oprah and Larry were going to have me on to explain my appeal. People were asking me for autographs on the street ... Finally, I was a somebody!

But it's all over.

When I checked just now (about 3:05 a.m. EDT), I was back down to 177,881st place (for a shining period in June 2006, I was somewhere around 55,600 -- then Technorati stopped indexing me. Grrr!!).

Search rankings: They giveth, and they taketh away. :)

Given this new development, the question I asked above becomes even more relevant -- urgent, even.

Addendum

It appears I wasn't the only one who shot to the top.

Not because The Bourne Ultimatum is bad. It's not. It's quite good in some ways. But if artistic considerations are the only factor, the series should end here.