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Craig Ranke, co-founder of the Citizen Investigation Team: "the notion that the Pentagon is in Washington DC under restricted airspace is a common misconception"

Craig Ranke, co-founder of the Citizen Investigation Team: "the notion that the Pentagon is in Washington DC under restricted airspace is a common misconception"

Craig Ranke, director of National Security Alert and co-founder of the Citizen Investigation Team agreed to answer the questions of Enquêtes et Faits Divers (France). If you have not seen the documentary National Security Alert published in June, 2009, (...)

8 Mar. 2010 | | Kropotkine

Citizen journalism : I’ll take it, flaws and all

Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike Arrington (...)

10 nov. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram

Yusuf Isak, the man of Jakarta, a missing link of 20th century history

Yusuf Isak, the man of Jakarta, a missing link of 20th century history

Yusuf Isak or Joesoef Isak. His name sounds like a combination of two biblical characters. In 2008 this man, on his 80th birthday, has finally received a belated but heartfelt tribute from his countrymen. His story summarizes the tormented history of a (...)

17 Mar. 2009 | | François 2009

Citizen Journalism just got a new weapon

Qik, a web application that allows users to submit footage to their YouTube-like streaming video library directly from their cell-phone live as they film it has come out of closed beta. The implications this has for citizen journalism cannot be (...)

23 jui. 2008 | | Jeremy Vernon

Syrian blogger Biassi jailed for 3 years

Syrian blogger Tariq Biassi has been jailed for three years for allegedly criticising the Syrian secret services in an article posted on an online forum. Biassi, 23, originally arrested in July, 2007, was found guilty of “publishing false (...)

16 mai. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Bullying and blogging

Bullying and blogging

When blogs first became popular, it did not take very long for bloggers to start using their sites for nefarious purposes, such as spreading lies about others. It may have started with some school kids who figured that using a blog for bullying mates off (...)

7 Mar. 2008 | 4 comments | Werner Patels

Anonymous bloggers are like phone perverts

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Anonymity could be the downfall of the blogosphere. In the world of media, there are those who produce media content and those who consume it. Even now, with millions and millions of blogs around the world — and they, too, are media content — (...)

16 Jan. 2008 | | Werner Patels

Masked cops disrupt peaceful protest

The growing power and importance of citizen reporters was highlighted when masked undercover police disrupted peaceful demonstrations at the North American Summit in Montebello, Quebec. Unfortunately for them, cameraman Paul Manly was on hand. Based in (...)

31 aoû. 2007 | | Jon Newton

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