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Ancient Lives: crowdsourcing makes history (but will it last?)
September 1, 2011… to Ancient Lives : a collaboration between crowdsourcing science experts Zooniverse and the University of Oxford. The project uses crowdsourced volunteers to digitize the 2000-year-old “Oxyrhynchus scrolls” (I guess the professional archaeologists are busy raiding tombs and fighting Nazis ).
Although the scrolls are written entirely in Ancient Greek, Ancient Lives director Chris Lintott insists this shouldn’t deter the crowd: “You don’t need to know Greek… you can …
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Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greek, Chris Lintott, crowd, crowdsourcing, Egypt, Indiana Jones, microwork, Oxford University, Oxyrhynchus | Leave a commentTwitter Predictions: the future is just 140 characters away
August 1, 2011… American Idol winners.
In a more sophisticated Twitter experiment, Dr Johan Bollen of Indiana University used mood-profiling software to analyze the actual content (rather than just the volume) of millions of tweets. He found that the “Twitter mood” of America closely corresponded to national events. On Thanksgiving tweeters were unusually happy, just before the presidential election, unusually anxious. Bollen also found a strange (and potentially very lucrative) link between certain …
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business, crowd, crowdsourcing, distributed work, Hedge fund, HP Labs, Indiana University, Lady Gaga, microwork, Pope, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Leave a commentLost in the Virtual Economy? Here’s a map
April 7, 2011… the new study Knowledge Map of the Virtual Economy by Vili Lehdonvirta (researcher at the University of Tokyo and occasional guest writer on this blog ) and his colleague Mirko Ernkvist.
Along with giving us something to blog about, the aim of the study is to provide an updated picture of the scale and development of the virtual economy. It focuses on its economic impact, business models and value chains. The two major areas of the virtual economy identified in the report are …
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Amazon Mechanical Turk, crowd, crowdsourcing, gamesourcing, microtask, microwork, National Library of Finland, Optical character recognition, University of Tokyo, Ville Miettinen, virtual economies, virtual economy, virtual item, work | 4 CommentsGrandma knows best: experiments in distributed education
February 24, 2011… bring literacy back up).
And the next step? The “Granny Cloud”. While working at Newcastle University, Professor Mitra recruited over 200 UK grandmothers as volunteers. Broadcasting via webcam each “grandmother” spends at least an hour a week encouraging classes of Indian school children. Some of the Indian locations are so remote that the Granny Cloud is the only access kids have to education.
Grey Power
It’s a cute story, but there’s also a serious point here. Europe has …
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child literacy, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, DNA, Education, Grandparent, India, Newcastle University, South Korea, Sugata Mitra, TED | Leave a commentCan we crowdsource the planet better?
December 2, 2010… local waterways; data is uploaded, mapped and shared with climate groups. Over in the UK, Oxford University has come up with Old Weather, an ingenious citizen-science project which gets online volunteers trawling through early 20th century naval records in search of climate data. Apparently, sailors used to record the weather on ship every four hours – not quite the tales of adventure on the high seas you’d hope to find in a captain’s log, but still…
An underdeveloped truth …
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