GigaOm: British blogger Brown Moses launches new site to train others in crowdsourced reporting.
“… I think Higgins is one of the leading examples of a new kind of self-taught journalist — one who uses social networks and public data to do the kind of fact-checking and investigative work that was previously only available to large entities like the New York Times.” Craft good search terms. Dig. Cross-reference. Dig some more. Check the author background(s). Explore a referenced tangent or two. When doing really serious research, I set up a single-subject folder, under which you’ll usually find: ‘alleged’, ‘verified’ and ‘fantasy’. If I need the various source verification articles, the main article gets an individual folder beneath one of those above three, using Mac’s color coding to indicate which is the main article and which is (are) supporting. Separate color for author cred, too. Am I revealing too much? I should put it in a ebook, except I never thought it would be valuable to anyone else ...
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