Category Archives: crowdsourcing

New York Times: Alaska to Release Sarah Palin’s E-Mails

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"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 systems for scanning them and inviting the public to help search them online. MSNBC.com, ProPublica and Mother Jones magazine are working with a research company to create an online database of the documents. ... The New York Times and other news organizations intend to assemble their own searchable online databases of the documents, and some, including The Times, were asking readers Thursday to help reporters sift through the voluminous correspondence in the coming days. "

The Washington Post: The Fix: Help analyze the Palin e-mails

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"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 micro-updates as tomorrow unfolds, check out our new Twitter feed [@PalinEmails]."

New York Times: Bits Blog: A Tool to Harvest Location Data

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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 participate in the project are asked to upload location information from their phone, which is then made anonymous and added to a database with the data from every other upload. "

New York Times: Death of Osama Bin Laden: How Significant a Moment?

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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 — answered by plotting a response on the graph and adding a comment to explain the choice. Each light blue dot represents one comment. Darker shades represent multiple comments made on a single point."

Papal Visit

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"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

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"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."