Blog: Crowd Sourcing

Adding realtime metadata to videos

Below is a two minute video clip from Bill O'Reilly's May 11th episode of The Talking Points Memo. No, our beliefs haven't done an about face. I was experimenting with Viddler.com and decided to use it to fact check O'Reilly's show. I went in and, right on the video clip itself (thanks Viddler), tagged it and added comments to expose O'Reilly's bogus commentary. But why take my word? The video gets smarter as more metadata is added, so why don't you fact check my facts and post them as comments and add a few tags while you're in there? Just scroll over the dots in the segment to read my comments.

How can we help make information online, especially news, less partisan? Well this is a start. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has just launched a news wiki! Wikinews just demoed in November and has amassed 106 articles. The goal is to have citizen journalists report on current events.

The headlines today are from all across the board: