A loose association of voluntary info-sleuths is doing an amazing job of ferretting out the story behind the leaking of a CIA agent's identity, alleged by White House partisans seeking to punish the agent's husband for taking issue with the Administration's pre-war interpretation of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (got that?).
The phenomenon ("A loose association of voluntary info-sleuths...") is an even bigger story than the story they are investigating. Watch the world change...
Dan Gillmor points to an excellent example of distributed journalism in action over at Daily Kos. I was completely blown away by what I saw when I got there. I'm still trying to soak in all the background around the Plame Leak / Jeff Gannon thing but, to be honest, the specifics of this event are not as important to me as the general phenomenon occurring there. This seems an obvious glimpse into a future where involvement by the general population in issues of import to the general population is increased substantially. Herewith some rant and analysis of our present toolset and humble suggestion for improvement..."
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