[doktrin]

A BI piece claiming the "Reddit hive-mind" essentially did the lions share of work in identifying the bombers [1] rolled across my FB feed an hour ago.

I typically don't put much stock in anything that comes out of Business Insider, nor have I attempted to verify their claims. Certainly grain of salt worthy.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/boston-bombers-martin-richard...

[zeteo]

The FBI had already identified the suspects at that point. The practice of presenting an image - possibly of poor quality - to the public and asking for information to help apprehend the suspect is pretty old and standard police practice. Yes, Reddit makes it easier for the public to respond - but there's nothing fundamentally revolutionary here.

[walshemj]

Which is total bolocks redit is damm lucky they dint get anyone killed as the Guardian headline says it all "Boston bombing identification attempts on social media end in farce"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/19/boston-bombing-s...

I particularly liked the new statesmans description of redits attempt to help as "a racist game of wheres wally"