Module 3 of 7: Livestreaming and crowdsourcing

1. Module 3: Livestreaming & Crowdsourcing

5. Live blog: Virginia Tech Massacre

6. Live blog: Haiti Quake in Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jan/13/haiti-earthquake

9. Example: anilnetto.com http://anilnetto.com/democracy/live-perak-state-assembly-sitting-2/

11. Crowdsourcing

12. Social media news curation tools Example 1: Joplin before and after the tornado: http://bit.ly/joplinstory Example 2: Rory McIlroy win at US Open http://bit.ly/rorymcilroy Example 1: Covering a fire http://bit.ly/storifylah Example 2: Saudi Arabia’s women drivers http://bit.ly/saudidrive Emerging curation and aggregation tools ie Storify, Storyful, Keepstream, Curated.by being used to pull together a stream of tweets, status updates, pics and videos on the fly.

13. 1.Capture Cincinnati: Engaging community through pics

15. 2. The Guardian and MPs’ expenses Invited readers to dig through 458,832 pages of documents of British MPs' expenses to flag up individual claims, or documents that merit further investigation. Over 25,000 took part and to-date sifted through over 200,000 pages. The exercise uncovered various suspicious claims of seeming extravagance or over-claiming of items of furniture, electrical goods, refurbishments and food. http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/

16. 3. Mumbai attack: Victims list using Google Docs

18. Example of SeeClickFix in action Residents point out suspicious activity in neighborhood. New Haven Police Dept Tactical Narcotics Unit alerted, conduct surveillance and sting operation. Police arrest heroin dealer and buyer and seize 10 packets of heroin. Link: http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/3998 Pothole problem resolved Link: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/newton/seeclickfix/

19. 5. http://www.malaysiacrime.com/