BUFFSCAN
Replacing Police Scanning
Objectives
Logistics
The indvidual journalist should view themselves as a node - a conduit - that exists in mercurial form, capturing and uploading information to digital networks, the most common being the internet and its child channels of the web and social media.
This indvidual, a BuffScan node, is charged and active to document and upload content from three physical locations relative to the action they encounter:
- From where they are now
- From where they live
- From where they work
Incidents worthy of documentation and journaling may occur at any moment, anywhere. The crucial issue is having someone there charged as a BuffScan node available to actually do so, not scamper to a scene from afar. While any incident can be learned of and traveled to, such traveling poses a risk to responding public safety units, incident victims, and even to bad actors (criminal perpetrators). BuffScanning aims for omnipresence as a means to collect and broadcast, not injecting people into unstable unmanaged situations.
