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Death 2.0: Crowdsourcing the rest of your (after)life
September 22, 2011… what it means to be dead?
A few weeks ago, while watching TED videos to escape the scorching Italian sun (it’s a tough life, I know), I came across this off-beat and slightly creepy talk by Adam Ostrow, Mashable’s Editor in Chief.
Adam’s subject was our online (im)mortality. These days people are constantly uploading stuff: social networking profiles, tweets and even humble blogs. Long-term, this means we’re all creating virtual “life-journals” that will, eventually, …
Crowdsourcing Forums, a Daily appointment
June 1, 2011… , however there are plans to roll out forums in four other languages, including Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch. The Daily Crowdsource is also considering requests for additional languages to make the forum a truly global venue on crowdsourcing. (Since TDCrowdsource is motivated by the value that crowdsourcing holds, the translation of the forums was, of course, crowdsourced.)
If you want to share information and ideas with like minded individuals as well as some of the leading figures …
Crowdsourcing vs privacy: do we know too much?
April 18, 2011… Minority Report.
Fanning the flames
For all the talk about personal privacy, human beings are addicted to gossip. Before language was invented, cavemen probably sat around grunting and winking about what Fred and Wilma were doing down in the swamp.
The ultimate mud-rakers are, of course, the paparazzi. Member of this dubious profession keep the world supplied with an endless stream of celebrity photos (inspiring shots like “Angelina Jolie buys milk” and “Justin Bieber checks his …
Caught on Camera: the crowd calls the shots
December 17, 2010… in Tommaso’s expert hands ).
To make sure he didn’t only get material from the camera-phone addicted West, MacDonald sent over 400 video cameras out to people in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
And what do you get if you issue an open call for life on earth? Over 5000 hours of film, from professionally shot, stunning photography to shaky mobile phone clips. Time for the project’s 80 professional editors to knuckle down for a caffeine-fuelled month of trawling through footage… …
Revenge of the gamers: an epic win for the world
December 7, 2010… able to weave tight-knit social networks, good at working hard (and enjoying it!) and addicted to “epic meaning” – great stories, in other words. This powerful mix creates a breed of super-empowered, hopeful individuals. The problem is, they think that they can only change virtual worlds, not the real one. (Blame their parents for this).
So the question is, how do we get gamers to use their phenomenal skill set and motivation to solve real world problems? The answer is …
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