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2013/02/26

Patrick Meier: Using CrowdFlower to Microtask Disaster Response — and Robert Steele on CrowdFlower to Manage Micro-gifting Local to Global Range of Needs & Fulfillment Table to Household Level

Using CrowdFlower to Microtask Disaster Response Cross-posted from CrowdFlower blog A devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. Two weeks later, on January 27th, a CrowdFlower was used to translate text messages from Haitian Creole to English. Tens of thousands of messages were sent by affected Haitians over the course of several months. All of these were …

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2013/02/252013/02/25

Patrick Meier: SMS Code of Conduct for Disaster Response

Launching: SMS Code of Conduct for Disaster Response Shortly after the devastating Haiti Earthquake of January 12, 2010, I published this blog post on the urgent need for an SMS code of conduct for disaster response. Several months later, I co-authored this peer-reviewed study on the lessons learned from the unprecedented use of SMS following the Haiti Earth-quake. This …

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2013/02/212013/02/21

Patrick Meier: Social Media as Passive Polling: Prospects for Development & Disaster Response

Social Media as Passive Polling: Prospects for Development & Disaster Response Posted on February 21, 2013 | 1 Comment My Harvard/MIT colleague Todd Mostak wrote his award-winning Master’s Thesis on ”Social Media as Passive Polling: Using Twitter and Online Forums to Map Islamism in Egypt.” For this research, Todd evaluated the “potential of Twitter as a source of time-stamped, geocoded …

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2013/02/192013/02/19

Patrick Meier: Verily: Crowdsourcing Evidence During Disasters

Verily: Crowdsourcing Evidence During Disasters Social media is increasingly used for communicating during crises. This rise in Big (Crisis) Data means that finding the proverbial needle in the growing haystack of information is becoming a major challenge. Social media use during Hurricane Sandy produced a “haystack” of half-a-million Instagram photos and 20 million tweets. But which …

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2013/02/162013/02/16

Berto Jongman: Catholic Church — Dead or Just Comatose? + Catholic / Pedophilia RECAP

Reading between the lines is most interesting. Cardinals Size Up Potential Candidates for New Pope By LAURIE GOODSTEIN New York Times, February 16, 2013 EXTRACT “What’s going to be very key in this conclave is the person, the personality,” Monsignor Figueiredo said. “Is he a man who can really speak to the hearts of people …

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2013/02/13

Michel Bauwens: David Bollier on Power-Curve Society — Free Online

POWER-CURVE SOCIETY: The Future of Innovation, Opportunity and Social Equity in the Emerging Networked Economy Power-Curve Society, written by David Bollier, examines how technological innovation is restructuring productivity and the social and economic impact resulting from these changes. It addresses the growing concern about the technological displacement of jobs, stagnant middle class income, and wealth …

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2013/02/032013/02/03

DefDog: Full Transcript of Hagel Hearing

Very sad — reading remarks prepared by White House weenies, a good man in a strait-jacket. Full transcript of Chuck Hagel hearing before Senate Armed Services Committee Philip Weiss MondoWeiss, February 2, 2013 I believe we can call the Senate Armed Services Committee’s confirmation hearing of Chuck Hagel on Thursday historic: for the savage questioning …

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