{"id":199503,"date":"2007-07-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/22\/where-the-net-really-makes-a-difference\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T00:00:00","slug":"where-the-net-really-makes-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/22\/where-the-net-really-makes-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Net Really Makes a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first place that I noticed the net making a difference in real life was when I moved to Baltimore, and I found out how much easier Mapquest made it for me to find a home where I wanted, because I knew were each address was instantly.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now entering politics, where you have <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/brandeis-boys-come-to-d.c.-madams-rescue-with-website-of-phone-listings-2007-07-19.html\">someone setting up a searchable database of Debra Jean Palfrey&#8217;s (aka the DC Madame) phone records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You have also found this in the turnaround of massive document dumps by the Bush administration on the US Attorney scandal, frequently in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to being hundreds, if not thousands, of people together to do the scut work of investigative journalism has the real possibility being a major game changer for journalists, particularly those who don&#8217;t have the resources of the NY times behind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first place that I noticed the net making a difference in real life was when I moved to Baltimore, and I found out how much easier Mapquest made it for me to find a home where I wanted, because I knew were each address was instantly. It&#8217;s now entering politics, where you have someone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,997,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-internet","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}