Hey Ted, glad to see you here! Two things about DocumentCloud

1. Regarding the bar to participation: "DocumentCloud accounts are all newsroom based. DocumentCloud is available to anyone who reports on primary source documents. For the most part our users are journalists, but if you are doing document based investigative reporting we'd love to have you join us, even if you aren't a newsroom-based journalist in the conventional sense. If you're not in a traditional newsroom, please do show us some of your reporting and tell us a little bit about the kind of documents you're working with."

Surely there's been much discussion about how citizen journalists who want to take a bite on a story but don't have a track record can participate. I understand there would be problems with allowing just ANYBODY to publish documents to the cloud, but I also wonder if people who have juicy docs decide to not take the extra step to submit to the cloud because they don't define themselves as Journalists.