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Crowdsourcing democracy: was the Arab Spring over-hyped?
October 26, 2011… King Mohammed VI created a committee to revise the constitution. In response, two Morocco-based computer geeks set up reforme.ma. In Morocco (unlike in Egypt) reform was based on the old constitution, so people had a clear starting point for discussion. In one month, reforme.ma received over 150,000 opinions and suggestions. This huge response convinced the national committee to consider crowdsourced suggestions when drafting the new constitution.
It’s interesting that …
Crime-sourcing: the dark side of the crowd
October 20, 2011 Share What do you do if your bank account gets hacked? Option 1: cancel your credit cards, have a couple of drinks and promise to stop opening emails from long lost cousins based in Nigeria. Option 2: take it personally, put on some dark sunglasses and go after the hackers.
Misha Glenny chose option 2, and then spent over two years infiltrating the murky world of cyber-crime. …
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captcha, Computer crime, crowd, crowdsourcing, Denial-of-service attack, microwork, Misha Glenny, Nigeria, Sarah Palin, Twitter, Yahoo! Mail | 3 CommentsMichael S Hart: a man of many words
October 18, 2011… started out, Michael Hart was dismissed as “that crazy guy who wants to put Shakespeare in a computer”. Forty years on, Project Gutenberg is a piece of crowdsourcing history. Every digitization project since – from Google Books to Digitalkoot – owes a debt to Hart’s vision and, of course, to the literary dedication of the Gutenberg crowd.
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October 12, 2011… in crowdsourced gaming?
As a kid I was intrigued by museums and also loved playing early computer games and made-up adventure games. I heard about “games with a purpose” a few years ago, then during my Masters degree in HCI I started thinking about applying crowdsourcing games to the problems faced by museums online.
Museums have vast, wonderful collections and they can make them more accessible by putting them online. The problem is that museums never have the resources to …
Crowdsourcing and machine translation: the start of a beautiful friendship
June 30, 2011… things people love to hate. Despite the best efforts of enthusiasts like myself, the majority of computer users still believe that machines are useless translators.
The whole area of machine translation has a terrible image problem. There are endless jokes and “true” stories about computer translation failures. Some of these are very funny (like the machine that apparently translated the English saying “out of sight, out of mind” into “invisible idiot” in Russian). However with …
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