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The Great War Archive: could crowd conscription help?
January 9, 2012 Share At this time of year, it often seems like people in the media industry are still too full/hungover from Christmas and New Year’s over-indulgence to do any real work. Filling the newspapers are either stories remembering the year just ended, or nostalgic human-interest stories.
Seeing as we have already reflected on 2011 , we decided it was a good time to talk about …
Death 2.0: Crowdsourcing the rest of your (after)life
September 22, 2011 Share Years before Twitter and Farmville took over our lives, philosophers were worried that computers were changing the nature of human existence. (Yes, I watched The Matrix again on the weekend.) With the rise of social media, this idea has now gone a step further: can computers change what it means to be dead?
A few weeks ago, while watching TED videos to escape the …
Crimes against content: is crowdsourcing to hamsters a bridge too far?
August 18, 2011 Share They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In today’s world I’m not so sure.
My doubts began when I came across this article on a Chinese power-leveling site for popular MMOG RuneScape . The writer (or more likely the algorithm) has taken an original article about Microtask, sliced it up and loaded it with terms (“seers village”, “Port …
Social networking and the English riots: don’t shoot the (Blackberry) messenger
August 12, 2011 Share
Looting, arson, armored police and outraged citizens: London is at boiling point, with other English cities feeling the heat too. Here in law-abiding Helsinki, the closest we get to this type of lawlessness is an unauthorized barbecue in the park. By comparison, the UK capital is descending into Arab-Spring-like chaos. Except, of course, that Londoners are not fighting …
Crowdconvention 2011: a designer’s tale
June 27, 2011Share To most people, summer equals sunshine, holidays and over-budgeted action movies . But to the crowdsourcing industry, summer means one thing only: convention season is finally here. As Microtask’s senior designer I spend most of the year stuck at a desk doing “vital creative work” like planning smart UIs, animating company videos and occasionally exploring …
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