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How the knowledge economy will change the way we work
April 3, 2010… the specific cognitive aspects of knowledge intensive work, the development of the employee’s metacognitive skills is essential for successful work. In modern, over-managed organizations a lot of metacognitive activity that should rightly be a part of the employee’s thinking (and would as such be extremely beneficial for the individual) is defined as the responsibility of management. As the employer-employee relationship continues to change, it will suddenly become the responsibility of …
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knowledge economy, metacognitive skills, task-based work | 2 CommentsFrom millions of tasks to thousands of jobs: Bringing digital work to the developing world
February 1, 2012… that make it particularly accessible to people in developing countries. Most tasks require few skills or qualifications, as they rely on the fact that humans are inherently better than computers at tasks like image recognition and natural language processing. Microwork is relatively disintermediated, meaning that it is not necessary to find employment at a local business process outsourcing company to tap into the market – a web browser is enough. Low labor costs moreover give a …
Bank, crowd, crowdsourcing, eBay, Facebook, Funding Circle, Loan, microtask, microwork, Person-to-person lending, RateSetter | Leave a commentGames at the museum: Mia Ridge interview
October 12, 2011… With crowdsourcing, the trick is finding tasks that give you the data you need, while matching the skills and abilities of your audience. Csíkszentmihályi’s concept of flow and the idea of the magic circle are both really useful when thinking about crowdsourced game design in intimidating places like museums. In my research, I found invoking the magic circle and providing simple tasks with immediate feedback often help “reluctant gamers” get started. People also love knowing …
BrooklynMuseum, crowd, crowdsourcing, GalaxyZoo, game design, History, microwork, Museum, Museum Resources, Powerhouse Museum | 1 CommentFrom January to June: six months of micro (and macro) work
July 6, 2011… does Microtask’s hardworking staff make of the year so far? I deployed my expert journalistic skills (i.e. went and annoyed my colleagues with questions) to find out. First up was Harry, our Senior Designer, who revealed he was actually “surprised that people played the games in Digitalkoot”. His doubts weren’t about the games themselves, but that people chose to play them rather than all the other great games available on the net. CTO Otto was more upbeat, describing how he’d …
BBC, Bruce Sterling, business, crowd, crowdsourcing, Helsinki, microwork, new york times, Ville Miettinen | Leave a commentCrowdsourcing and machine translation: the start of a beautiful friendship
June 30, 2011… to develop. Given that computers have only been “evolving” for a few decades, their language skills are really very impressive. I’m convinced that machine-aided translation has enormous potential to help people understand and communicate better. Just as long as we also learn to understand and communicate a bit better with our machines.
Application programming interface, crowd, crowdsourcing, English language, google, Google Translate, Maamme, machine translation, microwork, Wikipedia, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment← Older posts
