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Five things I learned this week (Pride edition)
Pride Parade, San Francisco 2012. Photo by torbakhopper. This week’s edition of “Five Things” is brought to you by the letter Q and all the colors of the rainbow! That’s right, it’s pride week in San...
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Tie goes to the runner?
Yesterday at the women’s 100 meter finals of U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh did something that was apparently unprecedented: they finished tied for third place....
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Run on (but no run off)
Following up on my last post on the tie between Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh in the qualifiers for the U.S. women’s 100 meter team, I thought I would briefly revisit the subject and, in the process,...
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Using the Higgs Boson to explain society
Image from BoingBoing (cc-by-nc). In the midst of all the excitement about the Higgs Boson, I’m not the only one who has been fascinated by the metaphors that different people use to try to explain...
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Journatic and the future of crowdsourced journalism
newsroom panorama by David Sim (http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/) Crowdsourcing, outsourcing, and other sorts of distributed work have long since made inroads into professional journalism,...
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Of Mitt Romeny, El Salvador, and bicycles
The news that during the creation of Bain Capital Mitt Romney sought large investments from some of El Salvador’s notorious “oligarchs” should not be particularly surprising given the extent of the...
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Some initial thoughts on the Otey vs. CrowdFlower case
The question of whether paid crowd work violates U.S. employment and minimum wage laws may finally make it into court thanks to Christopher Otey, an Oregon resident who is suing CrowdFlower Inc. for...
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A small public tribute to Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz’s suicide over the weekend is a tragedy. His death has affected many people very deeply, including many of my friends who were very close with Aaron. Personally, I did not know Aaron well,...
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Five things I learned this week (innaugural Windy City edition)
Convention Crowd, Chicago. 1912. Library of Congress via Flickr Commons Kuler (via Liz Gerber) – Adobe-owned site for user-uploaded color combinations. Elegant color combinations can be wonderful tools...
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The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited
In a new paper, recently published in the open access journal PLOSONE, Benjamin Mako Hill and I build on new research in survey methodology to describe a method for estimating bias in opt-in surveys of...
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