Distributed Intelligence, Fact-Checking
March 30th, 2006 by Dan GillmorNY Times: On Web, Error Is Uncovered Through Relentless Pursuit. Starting Tuesday afternoon and working through the night, a group of bloggers dissected a photo and a caption on the Web site of a Republican Congressional candidate in California, Howard Kaloogian, and declared it a fraud. Within hours, Mr. Kaloogian withdrew the picture, blamed an unnamed staff member for the blunder and apologized.
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March 30th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
FYI, the NY Times article got it wrong about who exposed the photo - it was DailyKOS and not Talking Points Memo. A better article from SF Gate, with more details.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/30/BAGD9I0HQP1.DTL&hw=Kaloogian&sn=001&sc=1000