Comments on: Crowdsourcing platform Help Me Investigate is live – and generates its first story

By: Social capital & social media :: interactivecultures « Ambition: To make sense (of it all)

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:24:00 +0000

[...] Me Investigate: the social practices of investigative journalism. The paper explored a crowdsourced investigation, seeking to understand how people worked collectively to affect a positive outcome for the group. A [...]

By: Birmingham Council’s £2.8m, 3.5 year late, 460% over budget, website. | The Wardman Wire

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:38:14 +0000

[...] to note that this story was originally investigated by the Help Me Investigate project, which is a crowd-sourced Birmingham project for investigative Citizen Journalism, and one of the roots of a movement which will – I hope – show one of the threads of future [...]

By: Anna Haynes

Anna Haynes — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:17:07 +0000

Is there a whatdotheyknow.com equivalent (for publicizing and tracking FOIA requests) in the U.S.?

By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:16:20 +0000

Thanks Taabitha – there should be a link to a report on the results on all completed investigations (in the description) – so you don’t have to log on to see the results. You can also read them in the Reports section – http://helpmeinvestigate.com/categories/1-reports – which is open to casual browsers.

Bear in mind we are only 4 weeks into a Proof of Concept prototype and are growing the site slowly and organically. Beyond this initial 3 month period we may open up investigations further, add new features, and implement some design features. It’s early days yet.

By: Footprints (30.07.09) | Chris Deary

Footprints (30.07.09) | Chris Deary — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:04:15 +0000

[...] Crowdsourcing platform Help Me Investigate is live – and generates its first story [...]

By: taabitha

taabitha — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:17:27 +0000

I tried to get the results of the 3 completed investigations, and I can’t find the results on your website. I’m told that in order to “follow” the investigation I have to “log in” but since you are in closed beta, I can’t get an account. What is the purpose of hiding this information behind a closed log-in system? I thought the whole point of this project was to crowdsource to get help with investigations AND to publicize the results. Please explain how the public benefits from this project.

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wineconversation.com » Blog Archive » Interactive wine tasting — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:45:00 +0000

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By: First success in a new form of investigative journalism « News Frontier

First success in a new form of investigative journalism « News Frontier — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:53:49 +0000

[...] out creator Paul Bradshaw’s post on the project and let me know what you [...]

By: links for 2009-07-28 | Joanna Geary

links for 2009-07-28 | Joanna Geary — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:06:36 +0000

[...] Crowdsourcing platform Help Me Investigate is live – and generates its first story | Online Journali… Both had resolutions that might not have made traditional media, but were important to the users and, for me, resulted in the sort of engagement you want from media (tags: future journalism crowdsourcing citizenjournalism) [...]

By: paulbradshaw

paulbradshaw — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:08:18 +0000

Conrad – yes, private investigations are a planned feature for Phase 2. The whole site is quite private as it is for the moment…