Tag: crowdsourcing
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J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer on the Future of News
In this future, both professional and amateur journalists will need to engage in more than just journalism, however. They must engage in new kinds of “news work” to serve their audiences. News work? Fact entrepreneurs? Credit goes to Columbia University doctoral student Chris Anderson for these new terms. They help us understand that journalism in…
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NTIA seeks volunteers to review broadband applications – Network World
Image via Wikipedia The NTIA, in a document released this week, asks for people to apply to become volunteer reviewers of the broadband grants. The NTIA’s broadband grant program is part of $7.2 billion that the U.S. Congress approved for broadband in a huge economic stimulus package approved earlier this year. Small Business UC for…
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Crowdsourcing for One: Make better decisions
Herzog and Hertwig called their more involved process “dialectical bootstrapping.” You can pull yourself up by your own proverbial bootstraps by assuming that you are wrong, providing a second estimate based on a search for new evidence, and then averaging the two estimates. (Interestingly, in Herzog and Hertwig’s studies, bootstrapping did not lead to second…
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InaugurationReport
InaugurationReport. The presidential inauguration is less than a month away and the NPR social media desk is kicking it into high-gear to figure out how we can get all of you involved in our inauguration coverage. We’re also looking for some techies who can help make it happen. So far, they have iPhone apps, maps,…
Barbara K Iverson 