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35W Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Anniversary – Citizen Journalism In Action

Today is the two-year anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse and, accompanying the tragedy, was a seminal moment in Minnesota’s burgeoning citizen journalism community.

The One Big Thing: The Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced

The One Big Thing you need to know is the role citizen media and the social Web played in reporting the popular revolt over the Iranian election results.

From Facebook Video to Whitehouse.gov: President Obama Crowdsources American Economic Priorities

Inviting Americans to submit their questions about the economy to the President and giving them a chance to have them addressed not only helps the President burst the White House bubble, it invests those Americans with a stake in his economic plan’s success.

Obama's Web Site – A Grassroots Online Application

The Obama campaign understood the power of social networks so thoroughly that they made social networking technology the foundation of their campaign Web site.

Truthsourcing

With truthsourcing, you’re likely to arrive at the truth much quicker and disseminate that truth much more broadly than if you had team of researchers and a PR firm.

Breaking Tags – A Common Taxonomy For Breaking News

What the world needs are common tags for breaking news.

Fool Proof Voting – The Elegant High/Low Tech Solution

There is a remarkably elegant and seemingly foolproof system that would address all off the above with a combination of Web technology and paper ballots.

Crowdsourcing Disease Symptoms

Is there a way to apply crowdsourcing to the symptoms of diseases in order to more efficiently advance medical science?

Musical Genres & iPod – Harness The Wisdom Of Crowds

What the world needs now is a new musical genre classification system.

Minneapolis Bridge Collapse & Citizen Journalism

From Twitter tweets, to eyewitness blog posts, to Flickr photos and YouTube cell phone videos, to crowd sourcing collaborative reporting, citizen journalism played a significant and central role in the news coverage of the Highway 35W Minneapolis bridge collapse.