[ddj] tools to crowdsource the news

Thu Feb 9 13:28:30 UTC 2012

Hi Mehdi,
newsrooms are vary regarding letting computers judge what is important and
what is not.

On the other side, and this would be my suggestion: In times of crisis,
when all of a sudden hundreds and thousands items are coming in,
crowdsourcing can be very helpful. Ushahidi is working in that field, they
have by now a feature rich platform for these situations. Also, if you
haven't done already see the Guardian's "Investigate your MPs expenses".
Furthermore, the Stanford Visuzalization team is working on letting users
"validate and contextualize" charts. There is a video about that approach,
the link to the more scientific descriptions is here:
http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/crowd-analytics

Best and good luck,

Mirko

Am 9. Februar 2012 13:14 schrieb Mehdi El Fadil <mehdi.elfadil at mango-is.com>
:

> Hello,
>
> I am working on a software project to help journalists crowdsource the
> news.
>
> Does anybody know about something like that already existing? Think
> Storify or Tweetdeck but more powerful.
>
> Some features I have in mind:
>
>    - searching for similar images and determine whether an image is
>    photoshoped.
>    - profiling source of an information to guess reliability
>    - auto-detect and filter mainstream accounts in order to notice
>    relevant information produced by people less active on twitter, but maybe
>    closer to the events.
>    - ...
>
> Do newsroom already have tools dedicated to do these tasks?
>
> thanks,
>
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