Tag: crowdsourcing
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A future history of crowdsourced reporting
During the second or third or so year of my still-brief career in what we might as well call “the news business” for lack of a more encompassing and descriptive term, I found myself jumping up and down advocating for a tool to standardize the task of gathering data from the news audience. Crowdsourcing as…
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Ushahidi’s Crowdmap adds checkins, just in case you need a white-label app to gather and map breaking news reports. (Hint: You probably do.)
Ushahidi’s Crowdmap adds checkins, just in case you need a white-label app to gather and map breaking news reports. (Hint: You probably do.)
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The Bodega List
An ambitious crowdsourcing exercise attempts to map the bodegas of New York City. Be sure to read the About page. The Bodega List
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Carnival of Journalism: Five positive predictions for new media in 2009
For this month’s Carnival of Journalism, Dave Cohn is asking for positive (if possible) predictions for the new media world of 2009. How about 5? Mobile video streaming goes mainstream: Probably tied to disaster/breaking news reporting from non-professionals, a la 9/11 blogs, the YouTube tsunami of 2004, Flickr bombings of 2005, and the livetweeted siege…
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Five lessons from 2007 – Online Journalism Review
“4. Ask readers for information, not articles” Five lessons from 2007 – Online Journalism Review
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MNspeak.com – I35w Bridge Collapses
300-comment-long thread full of “I’m OK” and links to information. Breaking news crowdsourced, on the spot. Disasters are the easiest thing to do this with: Thousands of concerned mobile reporters leap into action. MNspeak.com – I35w Bridge Collapses
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A journalist’s guide to crowdsourcing
One for the newsroom bulletin board. A journalist’s guide to crowdsourcing
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Assignment Zero, Day Six: Help Wanted Section – PressThink
Jay Rosen is looking for volunteers to put some time in on New Assignment’s first project. Are you game? Am I? Do I really have minutes left in my day to take on yet another side project? Maybe if we all volunteered to do just a little… Assignment Zero, Day Six: Help Wanted Section –…
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Assignment Zero
Jay Rosen’s NewAssignment.net launches a crowdsourcing experiment covering the story of … wait for it … crowdsourcing. I wish it weren’t quite so meta, but as a demonstration of the model, it should get the job done. Assignment Zero