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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Google, CIA invest in ‘future’ of Web monitoring
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company
that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information
to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands
of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships
between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and
still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics
engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between
documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”
The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it
happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that
chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event. America’s spy services have become increasingly interested in mining
“open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but
often hidden in the daily avalanche of TV shows, newspaper articles,
blog posts, online videos and radio reports.
(Wired)
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EJC to host expert roundtable on data-driven journalism
Ten, even five years ago, the use of data as a basis for reporting was difficult and costly, requiring IT skills far beyond what is common in media.
Developing the know-how to use available data more effectively, to understand it, communicate and generate stories based on it, could be a huge opportunity to breathe new life into journalism.
Posted on July 27, 2010 by EJC
Filed under events.
Press Freedom 2.0: pluralism and participation
The Press Freedom Consortium, a new collaboration of five Dutch development organisations that support press freedom worldwide, has finalised and submitted its final programme application this Thursday to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, in the context of the ‘Co-Financing System II’ (MFSII).
The proposal, entitled Press Freedom 2.0, aims to alleviate structural poverty by enhancing media quality, improving democratic processes and strengthening women, children and minorities by giving them a voice.
Posted on July 1, 2010 by EJC
Filed under announcements.
EJC launches GoogleWatch to monitor global conversations about Google
We’ve had our eye on Google since the beginning.
We now bring you GoogleWatch, a stand-alone platform that enables a deeper look at the global conversation about Google.
Posted on May 20, 2010 by EJC
Filed under work.
Press Freedom 2.0 moves forward
The Dutch Ministry of Development Co-operation has encouraged Press Freedom 2.0, a collaboration of five organisations including the EJC, to persist with its plan to strengthen press freedom worldwide.
The Press Freedom 2.0 project will address challenges to media and journalism in a development context. The project will focus on 13 developing countries over five years as part of the wider goals of the Dutch foreign ministry in reducing global poverty.
Posted on April 12, 2010 by EJC
Filed under projects.
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