November 2011
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Cross-posted from blog.ushahidi.com As Ushahidi ethnographer, my job is to do on-the-ground research on users’ experience with our technology in particular contexts. Something that we’ve been thinking about a great deal as we develop SwiftRiver is the process of verification, the ways in which technology and society work together to create useful, trustworthy and actionable…
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Cross-posted from PBS Idea Lab Wikipedia articles on breaking news stories dominate page views on the world’s sixth-largest website. Perhaps more importantly, these articles drive the most significant editor contribution — especially among new editors. In the first three months of this year, English Wikipedia articles with the most contributors were the 2011 Tucson shooting,…
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