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Distributed work and data security: can the crowd keep a secret?
May 23, 2011 Share In these post-WikiLeaks days, many people (and governments) might argue the only way to keep data confidential is to keep it offline. After all, the web was designed to link and share information. Online, as Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy once tactfully remarked , “You have zero privacy. Get over it.”
The trouble with the “McNealy philosophy” is that …
Read all about it! Crowd makes the news
March 10, 2011 Share “Researchers have always wondered what made hit songs, books and movies, just that, hits. What they’ve found is that quality had only little to do with it.”
At first glance, these 27 words look fairly ordinary. An interesting idea, but hardly revolutionary journalism. Even so, this innocent-looking sentence has caused quite a stir in the blogosphere. Why? …
Bringing anarchy to the creative process – When distributed work meets interesting web content
January 6, 2011 Share
Tommaso: Ida, would you like to write a blog post for us, sharing your ideas on crowdsourcing?
Ida: Sure, sounds good! I already have a few thoughts…
Two weeks later. The first idea that pops into my head is a text written like a ninth grade “creative essay”. You know, the one where you write a few words, fold the paper and hand it to the next person who …
Making news pay: a pressing issue
December 9, 2010Share The newspaper business has always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with the web. On the one hand, reporters now have instant access to the most magnificent research tool ever known to mankind. On the other hand, so does everybody else. Since 2007 an avalanche of free, online new sites (oh, and a global recession) have caused newspaper sales to plummet in the US and …
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December 2, 2010Share On the surface, crowdsourcing and the environmental movement seem like a perfect match. By mobilizing the masses and directing their collective skills towards a problem, crowdsourcing should be a powerful weapon in the fight against threats such as global warming (or, for those who live in recently freezing Helsinki , the challenge to speed global warming up). So why …
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