Clearing the Cache: Sourcing Through Texting
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, June 28 2010
- WNYC's "The Takeaway" experiments with connecting journalists with the communities they cover, for mutual benefit.
- Two weeks ago we highlighted Daviswiki as as the inspiration for Local Wiki, one of the many civic tech projects funded by the latest round of the Knight News Challenge. Now the New York Times reports that Daviswiki is being used by citizens of that California city to combat a local menace by the name of "Crying Girl," who bilks generous residents out of their dollars by weeping. Said one vic, "Daviswiki allowed the community to be their own detectives."
- Lady Gaga and President Obama close in on the 10 million Facebook fan mark.
- Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News fails Wikileaks on the "due diligence" front.
- And South Carolina's unexpected Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene has, it seems, gotten a website. For real this time.
(With Micah Sifry)