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From fiction to fact: interview with Esa Nikkilä
September 29, 2011Share Once upon a time (summer 2010) in a not-very-faraway land (Tampere), a band of crowdsourcing pioneers began an epic mission. Their aim: to create the world’s first ever crowdsourced novel . Four months, 500 authors and 2500 tweets later, the 140story project was complete. The novel, Todellisuudesta Toiseen (From Reality to Another), has now been crowd-translated …
business, Business Services, crowd, crowdsourcing, George Orwell, Imogen Heap, microtask, microwork, Otto Maja, Talkoot | 3 CommentsDeath 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 …
FixMyTransport: keep calm and carry on crowdsourcing
September 19, 2011Share Public transport. It’s like teenage dating or job interviews – everyone’s got their own personal horror story. The unheated train that broke down in a snowstorm; getting stuck next to “the crazy guy” on a 6 hour bus ride; any journey on the London tube. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for cleaner, greener travel but why is public transport always so square ? …
crowd, crowdsourcing, Fixmystreet, microwork, mySociety, Public transport, Tom Steinberg, Twitter, waze, WriteToThem | Leave a commentTransfluent: tweeting in tongues
September 14, 2011Share Extreme stunt group The Dudesons are one of Finland’s biggest exports. These four death-defying maniacs have a long-running, widely-broadcast TV show specializing in stunts so stupidly dangerous they make Jackass look safety-conscious. The Dudesons have many talents (like still being able to move without wheelchairs), but even their biggest fans would admit the guys …
crowd, crowdsourcing, dudesons, Finland, Jackass, Jukka Hilden, Latin America, microtask, microwork, Twitter | Leave a commentAncient Lives: crowdsourcing makes history (but will it last?)
September 1, 2011 Share It sounds like the perfect recipe for crowdsourcing success. Take 200,000 Ancient Egyptian scrolls and upload them to a beautifully designed interactive site.
Add a generous helping of positive publicity and invite online archaeology-lovers to get transcribing.
Welcome to Ancient Lives : a collaboration between crowdsourcing science experts Zooniverse and the …
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