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Center for Online Investigative Research

Very interesting (mostly) Austin-based site (although of course in Cyberspace geographic boundaries are moot).

"To assist one another in important investigative research projects."

The Center for Online Investigative Research provides the resources that enable We the People to come together en masse in an non-partisan, collaborative effort to investigate and report on the news we need to know to be an informed electorate. "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right." --Thomas Jefferson (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 88) COIR harnesses Internet technologies to do what has not been previously possible: to organize an unlimited number of volunteers to gather, research, and ultimately report our findings for the greater public good.

posted by Charlie @ 2:42 PM