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Faces in the crowd
April 29, 2010 Share
Once upon a time, consumption was personal. Although international trade has existed for millennia, until relatively recently it was not a big part of life. People grew their own vegetables and bought goods made by the local butcher, baker and candlestick maker. Selection was terrible, but at least everything you consumed supported a friendly face.
In the modern …
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Adam Smith, crowdsourcing, Mechanical Turk, Turkers' nationalities | 2 CommentsCrowdsourcing global development: working theories
May 18, 2011 Share What do Madonna, the Chinese Government and crowdsourcing all have in common? Answer: a complex and sometimes controversial relationship with the developing world.
Take the much quoted statistic that 33% of workers on Mechanical Turk are located in India. It sounds impressive, right? Thousands of people in a developing country using Mechanical Turk to earn some much …
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? …
The reluctant crowdsourcer: a decade of Wikipedia
February 11, 2011 Share There’s something hard to resist about Wikipedia . Like a giant, virtual fact-monster, the site sucks you in and won’t let go.
You click over for a quick fact check – to find out the year eBay was founded, say – and suddenly it’s thirty minutes later and you’re halfway through an article on Dutch Tulip Mania .
2011 is Wikipedia’s tenth anniversary and …
Bribes and Prejudice: India’s crowdsourcing revolution
January 31, 2011 Share If there’s one thing that unites people the world over, it’s complaining about politicians. Whether you’re black or white, old or young, right or left there’s nothing quite as human as having a good moan about the people in charge.
At Microtask we pride ourselves on upholding this ignoble tradition with our “constructive criticism” of state-run crowdsourcing …
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