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This is my kind of guy
Fascinating story about the kind of people that make the world go round from the Chicago Tribune Blogger gets off ground with 787 . The kind that stays up until 4 a.m. sometimes poring over god knows what and hustling on the Internet to feed his curiousity:
Using media such as Twitter, he broadcast photos and commentary in real time from the plane’s assembly lines, to Boeing’s consternation. He also scored some of his biggest scoops by enlisting Boeing’s workers to correct misinformation in his blog, known as FlightBlogger. They did so at the risk of losing their jobs.
Among Netizens, this is a version of open sourcing, where a blogger calls on a community of readers to contribute facts and correct errors, to the greater good of all readers.
for the pure pleasure of it:
Ostrower remains an unabashed fan of the Dreamliner, which analysts think won’t take to the air before early 2009.
“I don’t know where this goes from here,” Ostrower said. “I hope to see it fly. I’ll be standing by the runway and sobbing like a baby.”
Every movement has to start as a dream in someone’s head.
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