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Could crowd-driven think tanks be weapons of mass instruction?
March 14, 2012… to judge it too harshly at this point.
Why can’t we all just get along?
But while Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin are busily plotting the future benefits of stretchable electronics, Google has another project which may serve as a vital template for crowdsourced policymaking and genuine problem solving. It’s called Google Ideas and despite its very un-Google-like online bashfulness (the initiative doesn’t even have a website), its first project, Against Violent …
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August 15, 2012… in history (without hurting animals)
This experience is the reason I admire historian Ben Schmidt’s recent success in getting people enthusiastic about history and digitization.
What Schmidt has ingeniously done is take two of today’s most popular TV shows – Mad Men and Downton Abbey – and check their dialogue for historical accuracy against millions of texts published over the last few hundred years. (For example, apparently even the phrase “I need to”, so common …
Faces in the crowd: how crowdsourcing can help people fit into society
November 30, 2011… for the far majority of people, X facial expression equals Y emotion (confirming what fans of Eric Conveys an Emotion have known for years.)
You read my mind
So what does this mean for autism sufferers? Quite a lot actually. Growing up, most of us learn to “read” facial expressions naturally. We just know that when a parent pulls that face, it means we’re in trouble. But to an autistic person, suffering from so called “mind blindness”, it’s not so simple. Researchers …
Africa online 2011: The mobile continent
February 28, 2011… have begun to think outside the development sector – moving towards more commercial enterprises. Eric Hersman, one of the Ushahidi founders, recently set up iHub in Nairobi. iHub is a building where developers can enjoy their natural habitat – fast broadband, laptops, comfy chairs and strictly no dress code. The physical space is also a gateway to a wider, online community of developers, funders, clients and programmers – all keen to explore the commercial possibilities of Africa’s …
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November 22, 2010… assistants to pay, participants to hunt down and schedules to organize. Compare that ( as Lauren Schmidt did at CrowdConf this year ) to crowdsourced labor: a global pool of potential subjects who’ll work for a fraction of the price, and don’t need travel expenses.
It’s a concept the research community is just beginning to get behind. Some classic thought experiments – like the prisoner’s dilemma and the Asian disease problem have already been tried out using Amazon’s …
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