crowd mining |
Exploring ways of making sense of crowd's trails |
Since Tony Blair stepped down, he has received millions of pounds from an unusual mixture of income streams. His financial affairs have been described as 'Byzantine' and 'opaque'. Can you shed any light on them?
The Guardian vuelve a echar mano del crowdsourcing, esta vez para investigar las finanzas del ex primer ministro Tony Blair.
Ahora, además, ofrecen un premio para quien dé con las mejores pistas.
“There are lots of times where I’ll read an interesting story online and send the U.R.L. to 10 friends,” said Lauren Wolfe, 25, the president of College Democrats of America. “I’d rather read an e-mail from a friend with an attached story than search through a newspaper to find the story.”
In one sense, this social filter is simply a technological version of the oldest tool in politics: word of mouth. Jane Buckingham, the founder of the Intelligence Group, a market research company, said the “social media generation” was comfortable being in constant communication with others, so recommendations from friends or text messages from a campaign — information that is shared, but not sought — were perceived as natural.
Ms. Buckingham recalled conducting a focus group where one of her subjects, a college student, said, “If the news is that important, it will find me.”
BBC News has today appointed its first social media editor, to develop the way we gather news from our audiences, and make more of our journalism available on social networks.
Audiences have always contributed directly to the BBC's newsgathering, especially on breaking stories. But the technology allowing people to share and send photos, video, and eyewitness accounts is developing all the time.
The editor, who will work in the UK newsroom, will help the organisation to learn how to explore and navigate in social media.
La BBC anuncia un nuevo puesto de social media editor, con el objetivo de abrirse más a los medios sociales y con la intención de explorarlos mejor. Buscan cómo presentarse en las redes y cómo sacarles el mayor partido.
It was the latest example of what I think of as the mutualization of a newspaper. Our readers have become part of what we do. They write commentaries for our Comment is Free site—they have helped with investigations into tax avoidance and police brutality. They form communities around individual reporters and issues, lending a hand with research and ideas, bringing us up short when we get things wrong. They have collaborated on big projects needing resources beyond our scope. We have done things that would have been impossible without them. In return we give them a more diverse form of journalism and the visibility that comes from a platform that reaches some 30 million unique users a month—two thirds of them outside the U.K.
Después de que los lectores de The Guardian ayudaran con una movilización en Twitter a que se levantaran las trabas legales que impedían al periódico informar sobre Trafigura, Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief del diario, habla de lo que los lectores le dan a The Guardian con su colaboración y cómo ésta influye en que el producto sea mejor.
The Huffington Post applies A/B testing to some of its headlines. Readers are randomly shown one of two headlines for the same story. After five minutes, which is enough time for such a high-traffic site, the version with the most clicks becomes the wood that everyone sees.
“We are publishing more in a day than most other publications have in the history of their whole existence." (Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook)
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