Comments on: links for 2008-07-08 http://www.contentious.com/2008/07/08/links-for-2008-07-08/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:46:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian Boyer http://www.contentious.com/2008/07/08/links-for-2008-07-08/comment-page-1/#comment-1222800 Brian Boyer Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:32:25 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/07/08/links-for-2008-07-08/#comment-1222800 People are posting their FOIA results to Scribd. http://www.scribd.com/search?query=foia One thing I've discovered about journalism since I came to this world is that it's got a serious transparency problem - nobody shares! Once you're done with a story, you should make all the documents you dug up available to the rest of the world. I'd like to see a FOIA database, but Scribd would be a great place to start. More thoughts on Scribd: http://sixthw.com/2008/04/19/scribd-is-important/ People are posting their FOIA results to Scribd.
http://www.scribd.com/search?query=foia

One thing I’ve discovered about journalism since I came to this world is that it’s got a serious transparency problem – nobody shares! Once you’re done with a story, you should make all the documents you dug up available to the rest of the world. I’d like to see a FOIA database, but Scribd would be a great place to start.

More thoughts on Scribd:
http://sixthw.com/2008/04/19/scribd-is-important/

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