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Microtasking: Two hundred years later, the debate goes on
November 4, 2010… impact of this new form of distributed labor on the modern world of work. We happen to think that systems allowing ideas and work to spread around the world more efficiently will benefit everyone.
As always, we would love to hear from you, the individuals in the crowd. Only with your involvement will our industry reach its full potential.
The Travelling Salesman, one man and his crazy dream
October 25, 2010… to the world, we may find an explanation for this phenomenon. Is it because of great education systems? Support from governments or the influence of giants like Nokia? The fact you can’t leave your house for half the year and the other half you can’t sleep?
If anyone is going to find the answers, it is Kristoffer. Stay posted for answers to these questions (and what a 40-day ice-cream headache feels like) on his blog.
The Travelling Salesman left Helsinki on Monday 24 October. …
Teaching kids to win
October 7, 2010… When teaching his students difficult concepts, he uses the terminology, structure and reward systems of the World of Warcraft MMOG to motivate and grade them. The results include increased class participation and motivation.
It’s easy to dismiss this approach as only working because the students – wannabe game designers – are likely to be highly familiar with the quest-based teaching plan. Replicate it in a class full of Darrens and the results probably wouldn’t be as …
Watching Big Brother
August 10, 2010… as impenetrable as it always was.
Happily, to coincide with the emergence of these databases are systems which allow the public to collectively and individually scrutinize this data in a meaningful way.
One method, relying on the collective efforts of many concerned citizens, is to crowdsource the analysis. So, for example, when the MP expense scandal in the UK broke, rather than have teams of reporters sifting through almost half a million expense claims, the Guardian newspaper …
Behind the façade: How crowdsourcing will bring videogames to life
August 4, 2010… Milo’s children will learn day by day from human inputs (becoming, de facto, semantic expert systems and developing at the same time their own unique personality.
As these simulacra develop they will redefine our relationships with computers, and might even make us wonder what “being real” actually means. Transhumanists, who advocate human evolution through science and technology, will have goosebump-filled, sleepless nights at the very thought. For the rest of us, the idea may …
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