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Iran Election Tracker For The Easily Overwhelmed

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Iran Election Tracker For The Easily Overwhelmed
Robin Sloan Creates Iran Election Tracker for the Easily Overwhelmed
Posted by Amy Gahran at 11:35 AM on Jun. 22, 2009

It's easy to get overwhelmed by fast-moving international stories that roll through online and social media like wildfire. Which sources are worth paying attention to? When everyone sounds excited and urgent, how can you tell what's most important? How can you gauge accuracy and context?

Current's Robin Sloan, the generalist writer and media nerd who once worked at Poynter, where he created "EPIC 2014" with Matt Thompson, used a few basic tools to pull together a curated page that provides a quick "dashboard" view of what's happening online regarding the Iran election. His #IranElection tracker for the easily overwhelmed represents an approach that any individual, group, journalist or news organization could take to offer value and engagement through selected aggregation.

Iran election tracker link and the rest of this story here: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=165554
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   "Easily Overwhelmed"?  Forkboy   Jun-22-09 01:20 PM   #1 
   K&R  Swede   Jun-22-09 01:41 PM   #2 
   That's very cool! And the type font is nice and big, too.  EFerrari   Jun-22-09 02:45 PM   #3 
 
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1. "Easily Overwhelmed"?
Looks like I found my news outlet!
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3. That's very cool! And the type font is nice and big, too.
Thanks, Will.
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