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Simon Willison on Guardian crowdsourcing
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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 [...]
Jeff Howe on writing Crowdsourcing
Jeff Howe on the role of incentives in crowdsourcing from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.
Hack the Debate lets you eavesdrop on other people’s living rooms while watching live TV
Current, a peer-to-peer news aggregator and broadcaster, and Twitter, a popular social network/microblogging platform, have teamed up to cover the vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden later today: Current & Twitter have teamed up for the very first time to integrate real-time Twitter messages (aka "tweets") over major portions of a live television broadcast.
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Paul Lewis on two persuasive examples of the value of crowdsourcing news