links for 2007-05-04
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An interesting example of the internet’s geography of passion. A hybrid physical/virtual community where people track down likeminded individuals across the world, creating greater common understanding through cultural exchange in the process.
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This kind of social monitoring system for important information like disease and disasters is most useful in combination with more rigorous information analysis, like Larry Brilliant’s INSTEDD project.
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an example of farming out a large number of micro “Human Intelligence Tasks” to a network of knowledge workers for money. DoMyStuff brings this into the physical world with a marketplace for daily chores.
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Online systems improving the efficiency of physical distribution are essential for a low carbon economy - for instance creating local networks which make and distribute everything from power to food as close as possible to the end user.
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