"You start as a lowly cadet, but as you digitise more readings you get steadily promoted. The idea of turning an otherwise mundane process into a game, to give people more of an incentive to do it, has been a hot trend this year, known as "gameification"; Aren't these Pyramid schemes? Oh wait, they are volunteers....
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/11/crowdsourced_science?fsrc=scn/t > w/te/bl/weather1914 > > I have always been sceptical of crowdsourcing because of the integrity > issues. Yes, > I've seen some interesting examples, such as the use of Twitter reports to map > current weather around the US. But, generally, I've wondered if there were > any > real applications and uses for it. (The digitization of old books is > interesting, but I > haven't seen any real results on that, yet.) > > OK, I was wrong, and, choosing the application carefully, I can see how it can > work. But, prior to this article, if someone had suggested adding > game-playing to > the mix, I would have thought that was a deal-breaker. OK, so I was wrong, > there, > too. Very intriguing application. > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > If God had intended man to fly, He would never have given us the TSA > victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://twitter.com/rslade > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
