Comments on: Crowdsourcing, humor, participation http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/10/18/crowdsourcing-humor-participation/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Inspiration | MoveSmart.org: Technology for Residential Integration http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/10/18/crowdsourcing-humor-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-1273238 Inspiration | MoveSmart.org: Technology for Residential Integration Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:50:14 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2298#comment-1273238 [...] Ethan Zukerman highlighted GroupsNearYou, a great project out of the UK that is seeking to  geotag every local group on YahooGroups. From Ethan’s post: “… Tom’s now trying to get people to classify Yahoo groups for him, specifically Tahoo groups that mention the term “residents” or “neighborhood”. There are 45,000 of these groups, and Tom wants to know what geographies they address. That way, he can build a service where you send a text message containing your zip code to his servers, and they respond with information on online groups you could join that cover issues in your neighborhood or community.” We’re planning to feature this data set on MoveSmart.org, but in the meantime you should head over to groupsnearyou.com and lend a hand! (Thanks to Bec for the tip.) [...] [...] Ethan Zukerman highlighted GroupsNearYou, a great project out of the UK that is seeking to  geotag every local group on YahooGroups. From Ethan’s post: “… Tom’s now trying to get people to classify Yahoo groups for him, specifically Tahoo groups that mention the term “residents” or “neighborhood”. There are 45,000 of these groups, and Tom wants to know what geographies they address. That way, he can build a service where you send a text message containing your zip code to his servers, and they respond with information on online groups you could join that cover issues in your neighborhood or community.” We’re planning to feature this data set on MoveSmart.org, but in the meantime you should head over to groupsnearyou.com and lend a hand! (Thanks to Bec for the tip.) [...]

]]> By: Mike http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/10/18/crowdsourcing-humor-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-1250409 Mike Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:11:16 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2298#comment-1250409 "Specifically, he suggested that Global Voices or some similarly globalizing entity organize online chats around World Cup matches. Chats would invite nationals from both sides represented - Ghana versus Brazil, for instance - to chat online during the game." This actually happens a lot already -- around international matches, Champion's League matches, you name it. BigSoccer.com (to cite just one example, there are scores, if not hundreds) did this for every match in Euro 98 and WC 96, and typically partisans from both sides showed up. What didn't happen (much) was true intercultural exchange about things other than what was happening on the pitch (choice invective related to national stereotypes aside). For broader interaction, you typically had to be at the venues. (That said, a friend of mine was posting on a German language board -- essentially a live match blog -- from within the stadium during the Turkey v. Croatia match, mixing it it up with Croatian fans. There are lots of fans of both sides who speak German, which made the interactions particularly rich.) “Specifically, he suggested that Global Voices or some similarly globalizing entity organize online chats around World Cup matches. Chats would invite nationals from both sides represented – Ghana versus Brazil, for instance – to chat online during the game.”
This actually happens a lot already — around international matches, Champion’s League matches, you name it. BigSoccer.com (to cite just one example, there are scores, if not hundreds) did this for every match in Euro 98 and WC 96, and typically partisans from both sides showed up. What didn’t happen (much) was true intercultural exchange about things other than what was happening on the pitch (choice invective related to national stereotypes aside). For broader interaction, you typically had to be at the venues. (That said, a friend of mine was posting on a German language board — essentially a live match blog — from within the stadium during the Turkey v. Croatia match, mixing it it up with Croatian fans. There are lots of fans of both sides who speak German, which made the interactions particularly rich.)

]]> By: Tom Steinberg http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/10/18/crowdsourcing-humor-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-1249426 Tom Steinberg Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:54:09 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2298#comment-1249426 Vanity Moment: That 'about me' page is old and I'm hoping Google will soon forget abou it. Please use http://www.mysociety.org/about-tom-steinberg/ to help the internet pixies find out. Also, although I think there's something blackly comic about 'Haterbase' I don't think it quite conveys the cheerful purpose of this idea, which is more to shed some light on what sort of prejudices are out there, rather than just saying they're all too hateful to even list. Vanity Moment: That ‘about me’ page is old and I’m hoping Google will soon forget abou it. Please use http://www.mysociety.org/about-tom-steinberg/ to help the internet pixies find out.

Also, although I think there’s something blackly comic about ‘Haterbase’ I don’t think it quite conveys the cheerful purpose of this idea, which is more to shed some light on what sort of prejudices are out there, rather than just saying they’re all too hateful to even list.

]]> By: Peter http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/10/18/crowdsourcing-humor-participation/comment-page-1/#comment-1248797 Peter Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:25:57 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2298#comment-1248797 Ethan, a small coding error in your post. The URL for TomSteinberg did not come through. Peter Ethan, a small coding error in your post. The URL for TomSteinberg did not come through.

Peter

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