Community-invested news and the Somalia pirates

Josh Mull, who posts here, also blogs at Read or Alive. He wants to take real-time, community supported journalism to new levels and unexplored areas.

Imagine if you could tweet your own questions for Somali pirates and have them answered via audio or perhaps even video within a few days? We can do that [...]

Somali pirates not due to weak government

The growth of Somali piracy is in the autonomous Puntland area of Somalia, which is stable, and not involved in the civil war.

The piracy began when fisherman there started opposing illegal fishing by other countries and the dumping of garbage off their shores. They eventually started boarding ships that were fishing illegally, got a [...]