The organization that brought Syria Deeply, a site with in-depth information and news about current events in Syria, has opened a new site called Ebola Deeply with the goal of creating website with in depth information and news from independent journalists about a the Ebola epidemic. In their own words:
Ebola Deeply is an independent digital media project led by journalists and technologists that explores a new model of storytelling around a global crisis. Our goal is to build a better user experience of the story by adding context to content, using the latest digital tools of the day. Over time the hope is to add greater clarity, deeper understanding and more sustained engagement to the global conversation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 17 2014, @05:38PM
Why does it need https? I didn't see anywhere that it was asking for personally identifiable information (PII) or credit card numbers. Were you considering using the site to transmit clandestine messages to your operatives in the hot zone in Liberia? What's up with this?
(Score: 1) by mathinker on Saturday October 18 2014, @06:14PM
He's tired of the CDC calculating how obsessed (or not) he might be about Ebola, publicly based on a parallel construction rather than information which the NSA passes on to them secretly. And simultaneously the UN has figured out that mass surveillance violates human rights [techdirt.com].