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Wikipedia is pushing typography more than anything else, explaining that it chose “new fonts for improved device compatibility, ease of scannability and reading, and, more generally, to better fit...
Flattr and their friends from Thingiverse, Readability and Demotix discussed rewarding creators and crowdfunding online. All teams are striving to enable users and participants to share their money...
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Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia of knowledge...
I recall a highly talked about presentation (although highly unconventional) by M. Six Silberman whereby he discussed the "Sellers' problems in human computation markets". The basic question: can we protect the workers there from exploitation and from sweatshop salaries? Luis von Ahn posted a similar post on his blog. In the comments of the blog post, someone suggested that the low wages on Mechanical Turk is simply the result of high supply of workers and low demand for their work however I argue that what Amazon Mechanical Turk is today is a market for lemons, following the terminology of Akerlof's famous paper, for which he got the 2001 Nobel prize.
We tried to make this whitepaper readable for both those in government looking to solve an engagement problem, and those consultants that work in engagement and consultation that are interested in...
The simplest answer to the question “Why a Built Works Registry?” is: Persistent and reliable shared identifiers and the infrastructure to host human and machine readable endpoints that contain the...
Some of the findings in this study are as follows: - an increase in the average subjectivity of reviews is associated with an increase in sales for products; - some products like digital...
WikEmerg aspires to be the Practice Community for Emergency Medicine Educators and Learners. By design WikEmerg is a curated repository of EM resources available on the web. Rather than...
There are currently thousands of unique federal .gov domains and websites. And supporters of the anti-waste campaign plan to halve the number of .gov websites over the next year. Suggestions...
SpeakerText breaks the transcription process into a series of crowd and machine based tasks. First, speech-recognition software splits a video into 10-second chunks. These chunks are then (no...
Around the edges of these intelligent face-spotting networks,analog countermeasures such as hoodies,hats and burkhas have been deployed for as long as people have been concerned about their...
Back in July of this year a crowd of coders, scientists and new media artists gathered in Berlin for the Open Science Workshop at OKCon. One of the projects to come out of this gathering was the...
The Obama Administration’s innovation agenda is aimed at finding, testing, and scaling new ideas that change the way government conducts business and delivers services through engagement with the...
PaperCritic could become an effective tool for crowdsourcing insight and reviews into journal articles that normally doesn’t happen as a part of the formal peer review process.
“Microtask’s technology connects real human vision, crowdsourced instantanteously from anywhere in the world, to augment Ephesoft’s OCR capabilities. This way Ephesoft can solve the challenges of...
"The combination of Ephesoft’s automated ‘mailroom classification’ and intelligent server-based data extraction with Microtask’s creative approach to manual keying gives our customers the...
It takes the following to bridge open data and open government: *Community building - Co-working spaces allow policy makers, developers and civic hackers to congregate, have conversations, and...
The technology isn’t built yet, and Issa will be looking for savvy developers who know how to parse legislative text into a readable format, as well as build out user experience. Perhaps most...
Japan needs to build a bilingual Kickstarter site. Kickstarter only accepts projects from America and is only readable in English. But the Japanese game industry is probably the most receptive to...
Wordy is a professional copy-editing and proofreading service that optimises the accuracy and readability of content – from Fortune 500 business reports to academic texts and website copy. Wordy...
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