Method

Written by: Fatih

The method has three layers, and they are deliberately kept apart: observation, archive, reading.

1. Observation — machine

A monitor pulls a fixed list of sources at regular intervals. Its rules are narrow on purpose:

• Raw page content is never fingerprinted. Dynamic session tokens would make every turn look “changed”, so only meaningful fields are taken (title, link, date, name).
• Links come only from the source's own response. Deriving an address from an internal identifier counts as fabrication; if the source gives no address, the record carries no link.
• Dates are never invented. If the source gives no date we show only our own “first seen” stamp — and where we do not know that either, we say so.

2. Archive — append only, never rewrite

When a record is first seen it is appended to the archive as a single line and never rewritten. That way the question “when did we know this?” cannot be edited after the fact. The archive is public; no subscription needed.

3. Reading — human

The person who reads the observations, connects them and writes what they might mean is named. A reading is an interpretation and is labelled as one. Every observation it rests on can be walked back to.

Source notices

Notices required by the sources we use appear here and on the relevant channel page as visible text — not only embedded in the page source, because as we measured machine readers ignore embedded data.