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LaminatorX
on Wednesday August 13 2014, @01:27PM
from the better-living-through-journalism dept.
from the better-living-through-journalism dept.
From the Kickstarter BLog is How I Became a One Man Intelligence Agency by Eliot Higgins
Eliot Higgins didn't start out thinking he'd become a one man intelligence agency, but once he started using his blog to track international activity through public social networks, that's exactly what happened. Now he's running a Kickstarter for Bellingcat, a platform for open source citizen journalism
bellingcat.com will unite citizen investigative journalists to use open source information to report on issues that are being ignored.
so what's keeping you from being a citizen reporter too?
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You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.
A pity that it's totally undeserved.
(Score: 1) by VLM on Wednesday August 13 2014, @02:18PM
"a platform"
I may be incorrect. But at a glance, its just a blog, isn't it?
Now workforce automation, queueing, moderation, metamoderation, embedded biz logic wrt processes, deep integration with other sites, classification, searching, automatic data gathering/spidering, extensive linking, what boils down to built in data mining, some level of security dare we ask that it be built in from the start rather than checkboxed after the fact... Now that might rise to the level of a "platform"
But "We gots us a wordpress and we're gonna spend lots of $ on PR" isn't really a "platform".
I like what they're doing and their goal. And the tools they're using are ... not cool, but appropriate. But I thought the description of their tools was kinda funny. Like describing /bin/ls as "an enterprise grade real time no-sql data mining and analysis dashboard"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 13 2014, @03:10PM
Well, "platform" means just a place where you can present yourself. For example "TV broadcaster X gives Y a platform to present his political ideas" doesn't mean that broadcaster X now set up a web 2.0 site for Y, it just means that broadcaster X allows Y to present his political ideas on their TV network.
Oh, and "platform" may also mean the place where you wait for the train. But that quite obviously wasn't meant any more than anything web 2.0 was.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by strattitarius on Wednesday August 13 2014, @03:32PM
What this means is apparently journalism is NOT dead. Apparently if you do a pretty decent job of applying your expertise to the facts available via the internet, you can get paid to continue doing it to the tune of 50,000 pounds.
If he can get these contributors to subscribe, he will have done what newspapers have failed to do.
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