Scott Karp, one of the journalism blogging kingpins behind link journalism site Publish2, announced a Publish2 project called Digital Sunlight to help newsrooms and citizen journalists pool resources on covering the stimulus. It’s not ready to go yet, but here’s Publish2 friend Howard Weaver describing it:

Using Publish2’s free system, individual websites can easily let users submit information about projects. Some might be whistleblowers – imagine a Citibank secretary who didn’t think the company should be buying a new jet – while others will simply have questions they think should be asked. Sites can also solicit success stories, tales of stimulus spending that’s working.

Reporters will be able to search a sophisticated database of all the reader submissions – for instance, zeroing in on a particular region, or a certain company, or an individual government department. The system will let them query their readers to solicit feedback and information on specific stimulus topics.

All this money needs a lot of eyes on it, and it’s good that Publish2 is on the case. I’m still a little confused about it, but I’m sure Karp and Co. will pull it out like it looks like they’re doing with Publish2.

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