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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 [...]
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Meg Pickard on hecklers and engagement

For the longest time I’ve meant to write up more of my notes from Webstock in February. Now I realise the good folks at Webstock have posted videos of the speakers on Vimeo, which is even better. One of the people I wanted to write more about was Meg Pickard, director of user and community [...]
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Guardian opens up its data and content

The big news on the evolving news scene this past week has been the Guardian creating an open API. What does that mean? It means the Guardian has opened up its stories and databases of information in a way that allows other websites to use Guardian content in new and interesting ways.
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What Facebook does when you die

Staying with the 'what happens when you die these days' theme, the Guardian has a story by Dave Lee looking at what Facebook does when a member dies. Interesting.
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Telegraph.co.uk claims top spot in UK

My former colleague at the Telegraph in London, communities editor Shane Richmond, writes a surprisingly restrained blog post noting that the Telegraph overtook the mighty Guardian in the April ABCe audience figures.
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