- Journalists are relying on finding materials from credible online stories to be the first to break news
- How he verified the validity of the lightning strike, using free online tools:
- Spokeo to look up her name (which happened to be her YouTube username)
- Wolfram|Alpha to check the weather in her location that day
- White Pages to find her phone number and address
- Google Maps to get an aerial view of her house and to match it with clues in the video
- Called her to verify that the video was legit
- Truth is never binary. Truth is a value. Truth is emotional, it's fluid, and above all -- it's human.
Hope the notes were enough of a teaser to get you to check out the video! Share your favorite parts in the comments.
