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Digital Sydney is an initiative to help foster, build and promote NSW’s digital ecosystem. But they’re new and have no visual identity yet. That’s where you can get involved. If you live or work in...
Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company, is sharing 2 open source platforms for information collection and visualization: Ushahidi and SwiftRiver.
I like visualizations, as much as I like to write about the trend of crowdsourcing. Since the term might be overused sometimes, what do you think about getting back to some facts about...
Emphas.is lets photojournalists ‘pitch’ projects, budget estimate included, after which a committee consisting of photography and journalism experts reviews the proposal. If approved, individuals...
Crowdfunding Infographs represent, to me at least, the artistic manifestation of a movement that while based on good-old-fashioned capitalism, it procures once again the fundamentals of an economic...
It's a comprehensive visual explanation that you should look into if you really want to know what crowdsourcing is and how it's being utilized online!
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Visualizing.org is a community of creative people making sense of complex issues through data and design... and a shared space and free resource to help you achieve this goal. Visualizing.org...
Slogan should wrap up the idea of the opera and tell the world briefly what is it all about. Inspiration for the poster can be searched from the staging and costumes, but it is also allowed to...
Medical scanners aren't the only GE products to phone home: their gas turbine generators, used to produce electricity, also provide stats on their operations and the 700-some collection has...
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Emphas.is runs kind of like a cross between Kickstarter and Spot.us, where a publisher can get exclusive first rights to a story by kicking in enough cash. Plenty of projects have been funded...
The "Make it Work" campaign, which launches today in conjunction with the announcement of the Season 10 competing designers, will utilize these social-media platforms to share images...
Wikipedia is a fascinating resource and the most famous example of crowdsourcing. Kalev Leetaru of the Unidersity of Illinois and the folks at SGI decided to take a novel approach to mining this data. Leetaru loaded all four million English-language pages into the SGI UV 2000. Analyzing the data in near-real time, he created algorithms that were able to visualize not only how the locations connected to each other through time, but also the “tone” of the articles.
A deep dive into oDesk's data on the world of work provides some dramatic visualizations of what the crowdsourcing world actually looks like.
In this sixth installment of Crowdsourcing.org's From the Crowd podcast, senior editor Eric Blattberg speaks with Emphas.is cofounder Fanuel Dewever about the intersection of crowdfunding and visual journalism. Topics covered include the Emphas.is community, the site's recent problems with PayPal, and the economics of photojournalism, among others.
Wikimedia acknowledges that quality, open source visual editors already exist, but dubs them inefficient for its needs because Wikipedia has to support 290 languages, some of which receive very...
Its visual editor has been available in alpha release for English language Wikipedia users since December, and now crowdsourcing site-Wikimedia is specifically looking for help testing “more...
Cyclodeo lets cyclists around the globe upload videos of their rides onto a Google Map, so others can see exactly what street conditions they might encounter on a particular ride. For each route...
The Newspaper Guild and Visual Art Source urge others to join forces and no longer contribute their labor until the following demands are met: ● A pay schedule must be proposed and steps...
Even Wikipedians themselves reach a point where they lose their heads and just spend more time with edit warring. These edit wars only illustrate that people devote more of their energy over...
Open311 is also a rapidly growing, collaborative, open source project — contributions to the current specification have come from many cities and companies, and cities across the US and...
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