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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 Egyptian flu: you're going to be a mummy.
(Score: 2, Informative) by cafebabe on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:26PM
SlashCode is open source and that allows instances to run on intranets or in URL-spaces which require HTTP-Auth. And some instances run with adverts. Would you demand access to every instance of SlashCode without adverts because it is open source? No, because the license allows it.
This is another case where someone wants to develop an open codebase for journalism but wants to run a revenue generating instance of the code. Maybe there is some hyperbole involved but the intentions are more honorable than most.
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