Newsvine's Good Work Cited In Solving Benoit Mysteries

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jul 1, 2007 12:17 AM EDT

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Seeded by Scott (Scoop) Butki

The article refers to the amazing work down by Corey Spring, which I link to here.

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

"The ABC reporter tried to track down the Wiki poster in question, tracking down a person identified in a Wikipedia entry about Naugatuck, Conn. which came from the same IP web address that police are investigating. That person flatly denied involvement in the Wiki-Benoit controversy.

Newsvine, which earlier today used Wikipedia's sourcing backlog to track down a likely source of the post in question - based on two names a Wiki user used to replace the name of two government officials on Naugatuck's Wiki entry - now has published a Facebook picture of the potential Wiki poster, Marc Dagz.

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3 votes

#1 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 12:18 AM EDT

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NewsNerd

Could this attention lead to an explosion in NewsVine users?

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2 votes

#2 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 12:33 AM EDT

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Rapp3720

Great work Corey!!!!

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1 vote

#3 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 12:41 AM EDT

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Corey Spring

The good folks at Wired Magazine also found it interesting enough to pick up, and Anil Dash the VP of Six Apart went as far as to say this.

The aspect I find crazy though, is that anyone could have done the story as early as last Monday/Tuesday, but not one news outlet bothered did the fairly basic research -- whether because they were lazy and wanted to push out a story as fast as they could or just weren't tech savvy enough to do so.

My honest guess is that it was both.

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10 votes

#4 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 2:49 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Congrats again, Corey

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3 votes

#4.1 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 9:47 AM EDT

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Robert Blevins - AB of Seattle

If 'Wired' starts digging...they usually get to the bottom of things. Would you want them on the hunt for YOU?

I sure wouldn't...

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1 vote

#4.2 - Mon Jul 2, 2007 4:00 AM EDT

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lauhal

This is really amazing! Kudos to Corey for taking the initiative. :)

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4 votes

#5 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 8:50 AM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

I wasn't sure what groups this should get clipped to so if you want it, clip to it,
preferrably along with Corey's piece too

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3 votes

#6 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 9:48 AM EDT

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Elliot Vos

The Citizen Journalist?

I'm not a member, so someone else can. As a side note, I've been wishing more and more lately that there was a way to submit stories for inclusion in a group even if you aren't a member. Presumably group members (or editors?) would then be able to accept the proposed submissions.

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1 vote

#6.1 - Tue Jul 3, 2007 9:29 AM EDT

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Eric Atienza

And that's why the man has an RAV.

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6 votes

#7 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 9:51 AM EDT

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Wikipedia User Admits Benoit Posting	Associated Press	Thu Jun 28	3
The College Student Who 'Knew' About the Benoit Murder-Suicide Before Police	Corey Spring	Fri Jun 29	44
The Benoit Tragedy	Aper3Caper	Tue Jun 26	0

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