Citizen Journalism as Early Warning System

October 13 Comments Off Category: Musings

Ground Report Founder and CEO Rachel Sterne talks citizen journalism and an interesting question arises: in our evolving journalism landscape, can sites such as hers serve as early warning systems to mainstream media organizations?

The Ethos of Open Source

October 11 Comments Off Category: Musings

In less than 20 years the peer production and transparency found in Open Source is firmly entrenced in the mainstream and is affecting much more than just software.

How the Guardian Does DataJournalism

August 05 Comments Off Category: Scrapbook

From the Guardian calls Wikileaks 'a fantastic victory for investigative data based journalism' and explains how they combed through the Afghan data.

Peaceful Elections Come to Kenya

August 05 Comments Off Category: Scrapbook

Did the real-time Web and mobile technologies contribute to Kenya’s peaceful elections? Some say, yes, most definitely.