follow no path
all paths lead where

truth is here

– ee cummings

The mainstream news is clearly inadequate as a single source for “the truth.

It may be a good starting point, but there is so much more to every story.  The blogosphere often steps in to provide depth, but there are so many blogs out there and each seems to have its own agenda / angle. Then there are the ever-growing live-eyewitness videos, photographs and reports that seem to appear about every news item… Again, these dispersed all over the web on sites like YouTube and Flickr, or on personal blogs and e-mails.

So, in order to get to “the truth” one must follow many paths, links, clicks, searches… but who has the time to do all that?

Well, what if there was a way to view all of the above coverage (mainstream, blogs and live-eyewitness views), in context, as one was reading a mainstream news article, or at any of the other nodes mentioned?

Enter DotSpots…  We allow anyone who has found, captured or created, content, points of view, pictures, or videos that could be relevant to a news story to place it directly, in context, into that news story, and have it automatically distributed to all copies of that story wherever that news story spreads.

Simple as that.

We believe that if everyone was able to easily see each news story covered in depth and from multiple angles, the world would be a better  place.  We also believe that the only way to effective do this is by using the ‘wisdom of crowds’ which is why we’ve have created DotSpots as an open platform where anyone can add his or her voice to any news item.

We’re still in Alpha — internally pounding on the product to make sure that its core is solid — but we hope to be out soon in Beta, getting your feedback to help improve DotSpots so it becomes a platform that contributes to raising the awareness of people everywhere (or raising the Global IQ, as Chris Andersen of TED puts it.)