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Microtask: we love the forms you hate
May 11, 2011… ghosts of the pre-digital past. As well as ruining the décor, forms are a terrible way to store data (just try “quick sorting” a full filing cabinet). Humankind has sent robots to Mars, mapped the human genome and even (in just 11 years) tracked down Osama Bin Laden. So why is the paperless office still such an impossible dream?
As you probably know by now, here at Microtask we take productivity seriously. We spent many long days and sleepless nights wrestling with this …
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crowd, crowdsourcing, digitizing, Filing cabinet, human, iPad, iPhone, Mars, Microsoft Excel, microtask forms, microwork, Osama Bin Laden, paper forms, Paperless office, structured data | 1 CommentCrowdsource a country clean? Yes we can.
February 14, 2011… The organization is also open to working with other crowdsourcing services, such as the crowd management app Groundcrew (discussed previously on the blog ) “These are great initiatives”, says Ahti, “and could be used to organize field activity in some of our cleanups”.
A lean, clean machine
As well as direct action, Let’s do it! has created online maps of global waste hot spots. Map data is obtained by a combination of users uploading photos and (here’s the science …
Watching Big Brother
August 10, 2010… databases are systems which allow the public to collectively and individually scrutinize this data in a meaningful way.
One method, relying on the collective efforts of many concerned citizens, is to crowdsource the analysis. So, for example, when the MP expense scandal in the UK broke, rather than have teams of reporters sifting through almost half a million expense claims, the Guardian newspaper crowdsourced the scrutiny of them, with some interesting results. Broken down into bite …
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Barack Obama, COINS, crowdsourcing, government data, Julian Assange, Public.Resource.Org, Wikileaks, Wolfram Alpha | 3 CommentsMake future history
June 17, 2010… by the widespread adoption of the internet, along with other developments such as new systems of data aggregation and organization.
Well known examples demonstrating this shift include Wikipedia, Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk, the innovation solution Innocentive, and photo database iStockPhoto. These organizations, and numerous others like them, gather skilled and unskilled labor and apply it to a huge variety of tasks. As we have discussed in this blog, the …
Picture this: introducing the Descriptive Camera
May 16, 2012… It’s now possible for anyone to bring the crowd into their project, whether it’s a towering data processing task or a quirky prototype like the Descriptive Camera.
This means that innovative thinkers like Matt Richardson are free to pursue unorthodox ideas and create unique crowd-based projects. But it also shows just how easy it’s becoming to incorporate the crowd into everyday life. As the Descriptive Camera shows, it’s entirely possible to fit a whole crowd in your pocket.
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