[mailanay]

I had thought about the very high noise level. My argument is at a given place / time, if atleast one guy is "good" (obviously the immediate question arises is "which one"), it would be sufficient to escalate a "real situation" and supress a false positive.

Maybe this still is a bad idea. My point is we need to figure out how do we harness "intelligence" of ordinary "good" citizens who are on the streets at the time when things are happening or about to happen.

[anshul]

Are ordinary "good" citizens capable of really providing such "intelligence" without doing much damage for things about to happen? I doubt it.

However, I really appreciate the sheer lack of original journalism that came from ordinary citizens during this time... I think only one or two people were reporting from ground zero... Pretty much everyone else was just echoing the main media. That is a problem that needs a solution...

A serious collective of amateur journalists doing some serious journalism and not just echoing the established media would be a great thing to have. No idea, how that could be achieved but if it existed during this mayhem, it would have been the resource I would be glued to, not the maddening sensationalist sickening reporting of the news channels.