Citizen science = citizen journalism

[David]

Two kids test sushi in NYC. The result, 2 out of 4 restaurants and 6 out of 10 grocers are selling mislabeled fish (tilapia for white tuna, cod for snapper, etc).

They accomplished this by buying fish, sending it to a lab and looking at the results.

Following Brad's argument that the future of news is in databases, this is a novel, and probably indicative, glimpse into just how powerful that could be. In this case, two kids send in samples for a database cross reference and turn up a story that would earn any investigative reporter an award.

Kids these days, they are so precocious!

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/22/america/fish.php

David

[Brad King]

Dave, haven't you read that the only people who can win investigative awards are journalists? duh.

These are just kids fooling around with information. This isn't reporting.

;)