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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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(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.