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News You Can Use

Dan Damon Dan Damon | 12:41 UK time, Wednesday, 21 May 2008

There's a theory that as networks decentralise all kinds of information provision, newsrooms will disappear and people will provide news unto people without professional help.

My family and horse hope this doesn't occur before I've created an alternative source of income.

But it is up to us privileged broadcasters to work effectively to link together and verify the news that people provide, and we're getting better at that.

Here's from one of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Internet specialists that might make it easier. It's a search machine that picks up on citizen journalist pictures and video on topics that might make headlines. It automatically puts them on a map so we can see them without searching manually.

At the moment it's experimental and set to search for terms like 'explode' and 'bomb'. Some of the results are obviously taking those words too broadly.

But you can see how in time it might produce lots of valuable news commentary and images.

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