The Wisdom of Crowds - 26 views
This Wikipedia article presents a summary of the 2004 book of the same name by New York Journalist James Surowiecki. Initially it explains Surowiecki's ideas about how crowd intelligence works and ...
This Wikipedia article presents a summary of the 2004 book of the same name by New York Journalist James Surowiecki. Initially it explains Surowiecki's ideas about how crowd intelligence works and ...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/txteagle-raises-8-5-million/ (I'm doing mobile phone crowd-sourcing) While most people would associate mobile crowd-sourcing with the developed world (after all,...
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/imagine/20110506_DMI/index.php?startid=10 (I'm doing mobile phone crowd-sourcing) This article describes a suite of participatory sensing apps developed at UCLA th...
http://www.csee.usf.edu/~labrador/Share/PapersToRead/GameTheory/Incentive%20participation.pdf (I'm doing mobile phone crowd-sourcing) Beyond the technological challenges that face participatory s...
This article discusses the usefulness of Twitter as a tool for research. Researcher Pablo Garaizar suggests that monitoring large volumes of tweets and identifying trends in what users are saying -...
My topic of choice is the Anonymous activist group who's activities are often, but not exclusively, enacted online. The online activism by Anonymous is similar to the online activism described in Y...
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/78568/Nericell-Sensys2008.pdf (I'm doing mobile phone crowd-sourcing) Written by three researchers from Microsoft Research India, this article explores the idea...
A very interesting article that I believe presents a good basic understanding of the topic however being a Wordpress blog I would argue that it may not be a perfectly reliable or an unbiased source...