Monthly Archives: October 2009
Simon Willison on Guardian crowdsourcing
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Maps show how transport shrinks the world
New Scientist has published some beautiful maps exploring which are the remotest places on earth – given how much international transport we have available to us. The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. [...]
A look back at Guardian crowdsourcing project
I meant to point to this ages ago but somehow it got buried in ‘Drafts’ and time marched on. Earlier this year the Guardian in the UK turned heads when it used crowdsourcing to sift through mountains of documentation about MPs’ expenses and expense claims. The story, about questionable expense claims made by MPs, was [...]
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Why Twitter matters for business
Catching up on some reading this weekend I read Rod Drury’s blogpost on xero.com (online accounting software company) about why Twitter matters for business. He does a good job I think of explaining the value of Twitter for anyone running a company. He starts by showing how Twitter has grown over the past couple of [...]
Bring it on: wireless electricity