[Data-Driven-Journalism] Knight Mozilla News Technology Partnership

Sun May 15 10:21:23 UTC 2011

Interesting idea. I think than annotation sprints would work really well for
communities of interest - e.g. parsing things like the WikiLeaks material.

Would they work that well for general news?

Perhaps we could promote a set of tags that could be used as magnets for
journalists: corruption, election-promise?

Tim McNamara  |  @timClicks <http://twitter.com/timClicks>  |
timmcnamara.co.nz

On 15 May 2011 08:01, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> This looks interesting:
>
> https://drumbeat.org/en-US/journalism/
>
> The current challenge is "How can we create more dynamic spaces for
> online news discussion?" - which is open until 22nd May.
>
> Wonder if there's anything we could do in relation to annotating news
> articles or news sources (e.g. official documents)? E.g. with
> http://annotateit.org/
>
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