Bellingcat, Brown Moses' Open Source Project For Global Citizen Journalists

[ancianita]

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Brown Moses, aka, Eliot Higgins, out of Leiceister, England, is best known for first piecing together video proof of Assad's use of chemical weapons on his own people. He studies hundreds of video channel material uploaded from conflict zones, their locations, weapons, participants, with more speed and analysis accuracy than can Susan Rice's media staff. If you're interested in him, here's last year's excellent New Yorker article.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/25/rocket-man-2

This video is about his Bellingcat project, for which he intends to set up open source journalism training in the US as well as England. If you've been looking for a systematic way to use open source for journalism, his project is worth keeping an eye on.

[truebluegreen]

1. Sounds like an excellent, worthwhile project...and a great name for it.

[shenmue]

2. All things should be connected to cats.

As if they aren't already!

[ancianita]

3. Yep!

[truebluegreen]

4. Are you familiar with (what I assume) is the reference?

"Wha daur bell the cat?"

[shenmue]

5. Yes

[ancianita]

9. Yes! Just passing familiarity, though. It's been a while since I had little kids around.

[riverwalker]

6. brilliant idea

I've read his stuff on Twitter @Brown_Moses is always the "go to guy on weapons" when people (journalists and human rights activists) try to identify bombs used on civilians and children in Gaza.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. A while back a peace project in Palestine handed out cameras....

The idea was to record the IDF in action.

The project was called, "Shooting back" (as in, with a video camera)

[ancianita]

8. Interesting. Wouldn't be surprised if it was ISIS' Farqan Media productions, either.

Maybe it will become a new reporting model, handing out cameras in conflict zones for both sides of combatants.