Tracking Political Robocalls via Crowdsourcing and Google Maps
October 30th, 2008
Check out this great use of Google Maps for advocacy, sent in by anti-political-robocall activist and social media enthusiast Shaun Dakin — it takes the contents of his organization’s robocall database and displays them visually through a Maps interface, making them easy to browse through and to take in at a glance.
And because the database consists of calls recorded and sent in by members of Shaun’s list from around the country, the whole project has a serious social media backbone. Nice work! And congrats also on getting picked up by Ari Melber in The Nation today.
– cpd
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2 Comments Add your own
1. james | January 8th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Would Design by Humans or springleap.com be examples of crowdsourcing?
2. e.politics: online advoca&hellip | January 24th, 2011 at 12:46 am
[...] issues ranging from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to congressional redistricting the scourge of political robocalls to Third World political corruption to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. One good source of [...]
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