Nobody Reads Your Blog

Is everybody familiar with ePluribus Media? Being in grad school I’ve been a bit out of the news and haven’t been keeping good track, but these are the folks who broke the exposee of Jeff Gannon (that’s a Daily Show clip, so you can have some fun). They maintain databases to support timelines of important stories including Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Plamegate leak, and post-traumatic stress disorder incidences among soldiers returning from the war. These databases are available to any reporter who wants access. The neatest feature of these databases? You make ’em, their volunteers fact-check them. They have a number of librarians and other info-minded folks helping out behind the scenes with research, on a volunteer basis. Reminds me a little of the gargoyle reporters in Snow Crash.