The Craft of Research

Remember the tool we used in class to find contact information for the woman with the Twitter account and web site?  Well, along with trolling the ‘net to find hints of a suspected scammer’s political leanings, you could have used it to find the domain creation date that helped sniff out the recent BirthOrNot.com hoax as well.

And speaking of scammers and backgrounding, check out some great work by my colleagues at the Times.