BBC News: 3G mobile data network crowd-sourcing map by BBC News
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 12:51
"Last month the BBC invited people to download an app that would collate the 3G coverage their Android handsets were getting. The experiment aimed to offer a snapshot of coverage. 44,600 volunteers took part, providing testing firm Epitiro with …
New York Times: Alaska to Release Sarah Palin’s E-Mails
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:07
"The news media have descended here en masse to sift through the trove, with many organizations sending teams of reporters and database specialists to comb the documents and post them online. … some news organizations are setting up elaborate sy…
The Washington Post: The Fix: Help analyze the Palin e-mails
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:00
"Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska's governor will be released Friday . We’ll be posting them here, and are inviting you to comment on the most interesting or most noteworthy sections. … For …
New York Times: Bits Blog: A Tool to Harvest Location Data
Friday, 6 May 2011, 16:27
Developers in The New York Times Company Research and Development Lab released a Web-based tool on Thursday that they hope will corral the location data Apple had been collecting and make it available to customers and researchers. … People who partic…
New York Times: Death of Osama Bin Laden: How Significant a Moment?
Friday, 6 May 2011, 15:36
Ingenious interactive captures and visualises reader sentiment: "We asked readers the following questions: Was his death significant in our war against terror? And do you have a negative or positive view of this event? Readers — 13,864 of them â…
Google Maps Mania: Government Cuts on Google Maps
Friday, 1 April 2011, 13:27
Several attempts being made to plot local spending cuts on a map, including crowdsourcing efforts by Channel 4 and the Guardian.
BBC News: Crowd-sourcing aids Japan crisis
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 15:09
"The RDTN.org website allows people to submit their own radiation readings and maps them alongside official data."
BBC News:- Broadband speed mapped for BBC Look East research
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 14:20
"BBC Look East is calling for people in the East of England to find out their home broadband speed, as part of the TV programme's week-long special. … Home broadband users can take part by plotting their speed onto an interactive map."
Papal Visit
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 09:07
"The Guardian is experimenting with crowd-sourcing the Pope’s visit to the UK. Our team of correspondents, bloggers, photographers and columnists will be covering most dimensions of Pope Benedict XVI’s trip – as will an army of hundreds of agency journalists and rolling news television crews pursuing his every step. But the mainstream media cannot be everywhere at once. This CrowdMap aims to combine verified reports from the Guardian and other media with potentially invaluable information supplied by people like you, who simply see, hear or record something they think is relevant about the Papal visit."
Nieman Journalism Lab: GameChanger sees a business model in baseball scores
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 14:26
"GameChanger is trying to monetize not just sports-related content, but sports scoring in general. Via, in particular, a mobile app that coaches and other scorekeepers can use to tabulate the scores of their games. And which they can also use — here’s where we get interested — to automatically distribute those scores to local media. … the platform facilitates targeted — highly targeted — crowdsourcing: via the GameChanger app, baseball and softball scorekeepers use their iPhones or iPads to file the detailed scores of their games, in real time. Those data then get beamed to GameChanger’s central servers, which tally up box scores."
Guardian: Postal strike: How is it affecting mail delivery?
Friday, 23 October 2009, 09:20
Nice Google Maps project from the Guardian: "To monitor the effects of this strike we sent postcards via first-class mail on 20 October to 500 Guardian readers who will let us know when they arrive. As we hear from those readers we will plot their postcodes on the map."
NYTimes.com: Graphic: What Are You Reading on the Subway? Our Readers Respond
Saturday, 5 September 2009, 13:23
"By Friday, almost 6,000 readers had answered the question, 'What was the last book, magazine and newspaper you read on the subway?' Here are the top choices so far."
Poynter: NPR Uses Crowdsourcing to Identify Lobbyists in ‘Dollar Politics’ Project
Saturday, 27 June 2009, 05:50
"This isn't a massive, complicated crowdsourcing effort, and it's not the centerpiece of the project. But it is an example of turning a specific part of a reporting project over to the public to find out what they know."
Poynter: NPR Uses Crowdsourcing to Identify Lobbyists in ‘Dollar Politics’ Project
Saturday, 27 June 2009, 05:50
"This isn't a massive, complicated crowdsourcing effort, and it's not the centerpiece of the project. But it is an example of turning a specific part of a reporting project over to the public to find out what they know."
