NY Times invites reader interaction with content

Just now the New York Times published a CIA report detailing abuses that took place inside secret prisons.

The entire pdf of the report is published within an online document reader. A brilliant feature is that readers are invited to interact with this content by helping to annotate it.

Hip hip hurrah, NYT.

Hero of the Day: David Rhode

Can you imagine being captured by the Taliban in November 2008 and a full SEVEN months later, still in captivity, having the presence of mind to scale a wall and escape?! ...

[New York Times reporter] David Rhode, who was kidnapped seven months ago near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, scaled a wall and fled to safety at a nearby army base.

Kudos to the Times for keeping the incident completely under wraps, and to other news orgs for cooperating with that request. If only the WSJ had done the same when Daniel Pearl was nabbed ...