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==Day 2: Tues 15 Nov== | |||
===TA-DA!!!=== | |||
V0.10: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/review.php <br /> | |||
V0.01: Our meagre attempt at a review generator: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi | |||
===Source Code=== | |||
<source lang="python"> | |||
#!/usr/bin/python | |||
#Random review generator | |||
#'good.txt' and 'bad.txt' are textfiles containing a list of sentences | |||
#picks five sentences and rams them together in an ugly review mashup. Hurray! | |||
import string | |||
import random | |||
from random import choice | |||
goodstuff = open("good.txt") | |||
badstuff = open("bad.txt") | |||
review = [] | |||
goodlines = [] | |||
badlines = [] | |||
goodreview = [] | |||
for line in goodstuff: | |||
#print line | |||
goodlines = map(string.strip, goodlines) | |||
goodlines.append(line) | |||
print """Content-type: text/html\n\n""" | |||
print "" | |||
print """<head> | |||
<title>Ultimate Review</title> | |||
</head> | |||
""" | |||
print ''' | |||
<body style="margin:0; padding:0; font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; overflow:hidden;" > | |||
<div style="background-color:#00ff00; width:48%; height:100%; float:left; padding:10px; margin:0;">''' | |||
for i in range(5): | |||
print choice(goodlines) | |||
print "</div>" | |||
for line in badstuff: | |||
badlines = map(string.strip, badlines) | |||
badlines.append(line) | |||
print '''<div style="background-color:#ff0000; width:48%; height:100%; float:left; padding:10px; margin:0;">''' | |||
for i in range(5): | |||
print choice(badlines) | |||
print "</div>" | |||
</source> | |||
===Subject=== | |||
"The unreliability of crowd-sourced reviews." | |||
===Ideas=== | |||
*Reviews of a banale everyday objects - "this dustbin is awesome!!!! best one in town I luv it!!! xx" | |||
*Automatic review generator. | |||
*The ultimate review: a relevant critique of everything! Comes in good and bad versions! | |||
*Review Vliegenhart as a company on google maps. | |||
*From cyberspace to public space: printing out reviews from google maps and pasting them up outside the actual business premises. | |||
list of sentences: | |||
Good: | |||
* Hell Yes! | |||
* They are known to be reliable, and have more than 25 years of experience. | |||
* The service is very good and the staffs is helpful and always smiling. | |||
* They are ready to make your vision a reality. | |||
* Will definitely recommend this *** to other viewers. | |||
* I really enjoyed this *****! | |||
* Nice! | |||
* No complaints. | |||
* The folks here are always helpful. | |||
* This place is sweet. | |||
* It is a little expensive but it it worth it. | |||
* Great place. Will go there again soon. | |||
* Ohhh good view and pizza... | |||
* Recommended to the tourists. Value is good as well. | |||
* A beautifull architectural monument! | |||
* I strolled around for a couple of hours in the early morning and took some gorgeous photos. | |||
* Sometimes for free ! | |||
* Impressive and inspiring. Good hidden history. | |||
* Surreal inside and outside! | |||
* Just a great part of our city. | |||
* Worth every penny of it I would go back in a heartbeat! | |||
* The grounds are well kept. | |||
* 'It had what i want buy there.' | |||
* 'Regularly find deep discounts' | |||
* 'It looks high quality here very well organized.' | |||
* 'There service is outstanding also.' | |||
* 'All there products are high quality, thanks **** for the wonderful service.' | |||
* 'My wife and many of my friends love *****' | |||
* 'Perhaps the most magical place and romantic in ******.' | |||
* 'Serene. Picturesque – even (or especially) in a summer rain.' | |||
* 'Charming and cozy ambience.Perfect for a special occasion.' | |||
* 'I saw nothing that would deter me from recommending this place to anyone I know.' | |||
* 'I will be going again soon.' | |||
* 'I'll put my name to this recommendation.' | |||
* 'Pricey but worth every cent.' | |||
* 'I recommend this place to everyone!' | |||
* 'Wonderful place to visit.' | |||
* 'I couldn't of asked for better employees of the hotel.' | |||
* 'It don't get any better in this lifetime!' | |||
* 'A great place to be inspired.' | |||
* 'The best way to spend an afternoon' | |||
* 'One of the best of those I've seen in a long time!' | |||
* 'Great service good afordable prise made my day.' | |||
* 'I owe a lot to this place!' | |||
* 'For me, it was like connecting back to my youth in the 50s and 60s when life was easy going.' | |||
* 'Do Not Buy This Product.' | |||
Bad: | |||
* BEWARE! | |||
* Thoroughly Disappointed. | |||
* DO NOT DO TRADE WITH *****!!! | |||
* Spectacularly poor. | |||
* A big disappointment. I had high hopes for **** | |||
* I was incredibly excited...then thoroughly disappointed. | |||
* What a dump!!! | |||
* One of the worst **** I've ever been to. | |||
* It's over crowded and it's super chaotic. | |||
* Bad Quality! | |||
* It's gotten better over the years, but retains its dingy quality. | |||
* Avoid this **** at all costs. | |||
* Waste of $$$$$!!!! | |||
* If you are a smoker this is not a place for you. You can't even leave and come back in. | |||
* Price is very expensive and not worth the trip. | |||
* Look, service and value are not there. | |||
* It stinks! | |||
* It was chaotic, disorganised and NOISY. | |||
* Service was poor and inattentive, often had to go ask for things, but not surprising considering the crazy layout. | |||
* Full of tourists and squirrels. | |||
* It's worth feeding the pigeons and squirrels. | |||
* It was a little creepy to know that some people have died in this place. | |||
* All the rooms are roped off so you can't go in and appreciate anything up close. | |||
* If you want classy this isn't the place for you. | |||
* Not interested in getting served by scantilly clad women | |||
* Pretty crowded by **** standard | |||
* And yes, you'll sometimes find a deal that is amazing, but is it worth selling your soul to the devil for? Nah, I'll skip this location. | |||
* TOURIST TRAP! | |||
* Anything I have bought from here seems to be lesser quality. | |||
* 'Extremely rude, poor customer service. They even had the police waiting outside for me.' | |||
* 'Be prepared to be treated as a theif before you shop!' | |||
* 'I left ****** in a really bad mood.' | |||
* 'it's a nightmare!' | |||
* 'Really not impressed' | |||
* '***** has a C rating from the health department, the lowest grade possible." | |||
* 'To say Im disgusted would be an understatement.' | |||
* 'I can assure you that this will be the LAST!' | |||
* 'They got bad reports with inspectors.' | |||
* 'It was completely disgusting! | |||
* 'Completely and utterly dissatisfied!!!! | |||
* 'Mold on the walls! | |||
* 'Too much to post. I'll never come back here! | |||
* 'I won't be coming back here again live and learn' | |||
* 'Should have made a police report.' | |||
* 'Location hard to find' | |||
* 'a man is just rude' | |||
* 'The major downside is that you can't take little kids into it.' | |||
* 'Look elsewhere!' | |||
* 'A big rip off.' | |||
* 'Waste of money and time better spent anywhere else.' | |||
* 'The service is poor, actually there's no service.' | |||
* 'Bottom line, unremarkable course, bad service and slow play.' | |||
==Day 1: Mon 14 Nov== | |||
===Source Story=== | |||
Owner of computer repair business (amusingly titled "That Computer Chap") accused of "stealing RAM" and "touching the 9 year old child" of a customer. Taken from BBC news site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15575171 | |||
====The Review==== | |||
<pre> | |||
"Robbed My RAM and Touched 9 Year Old What a scam artist, he stole RAM from my computer and replaced it | |||
with smaller chips hoping I wouldnt notice and also I later found out touched my 9 year old inappropriately. | |||
A Violator and a rogue trader. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!"</pre> | |||
===Other References=== | |||
Jon Ronson doc about Astroturfing and controlling reputation online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/sep/07/jon-ronson-control-internet-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486 | |||
===Keywords=== | |||
*Identity/reputation | |||
*Freedom of speech | |||
*Google power! | |||
*Crowdsourced data | |||
===Elements=== | |||
*Ethics of free speech | |||
*Corruption of dataset | |||
*Research google's TOS with relation to slanderous comments/reviews | |||
===Summary=== | |||
*Unrelated offensive review to very innocent businesses with the "DO NOT TRADE WITH THIS MAN!" #hashtag. | |||
===Draft=== | |||
<pre>got sum falafels from d falafel king in rottrdam but d falafel was ful of keys and he did stole a wheel from my bicycel. | |||
A violater and rogue falafel vendor. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!!!</pre> | |||
==List of stories== | |||
* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7894530/Barbie-signs-up-to-Foursquare.html | |||
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/04/bt-pressure-block-pirate-bay | |||
* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8313225/Record-industry-dismisses-judges-criticism-of-piracy-evidence.html | |||
* http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/spip.php?article2921&lang=fr | |||
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15575171 | |||
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/13/bright-idea-mappiness-happiness-app | |||
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/16/email-hacker-identity-rowenna-davis | |||
==The Nike Experiment : How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics== | ==The Nike Experiment : How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics== | ||
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Interesting expressions: | |||
* quantitative mindset | * quantitative mindset | ||
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* Open source spinoffs of Nike's web app > allows the user to retain control over their data while still using the Nike sensors - [neki http://neki.sourceforge.net/] | * Open source spinoffs of Nike's web app > allows the user to retain control over their data while still using the Nike sensors - [neki http://neki.sourceforge.net/] | ||
==Image of Nike's web app== | [[File:pie.jpg | thumbnail | The subject and the researcher are the same person.]] | ||
===Image of Nike's web app=== | |||
[[File:nike.jpg]] | [[File:nike.jpg]] | ||
==Radiohead!== | ===Radiohead!=== | ||
[[File:fitter.jpg]] | [[File:fitter.jpg]] |
Latest revision as of 19:46, 17 November 2011
Day 2: Tues 15 Nov
TA-DA!!!
V0.10: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/review.php
V0.01: Our meagre attempt at a review generator: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi
Source Code
#!/usr/bin/python
#Random review generator
#'good.txt' and 'bad.txt' are textfiles containing a list of sentences
#picks five sentences and rams them together in an ugly review mashup. Hurray!
import string
import random
from random import choice
goodstuff = open("good.txt")
badstuff = open("bad.txt")
review = []
goodlines = []
badlines = []
goodreview = []
for line in goodstuff:
#print line
goodlines = map(string.strip, goodlines)
goodlines.append(line)
print """Content-type: text/html\n\n"""
print ""
print """<head>
<title>Ultimate Review</title>
</head>
"""
print '''
<body style="margin:0; padding:0; font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; overflow:hidden;" >
<div style="background-color:#00ff00; width:48%; height:100%; float:left; padding:10px; margin:0;">'''
for i in range(5):
print choice(goodlines)
print "</div>"
for line in badstuff:
badlines = map(string.strip, badlines)
badlines.append(line)
print '''<div style="background-color:#ff0000; width:48%; height:100%; float:left; padding:10px; margin:0;">'''
for i in range(5):
print choice(badlines)
print "</div>"
Subject
"The unreliability of crowd-sourced reviews."
Ideas
- Reviews of a banale everyday objects - "this dustbin is awesome!!!! best one in town I luv it!!! xx"
- Automatic review generator.
- The ultimate review: a relevant critique of everything! Comes in good and bad versions!
- Review Vliegenhart as a company on google maps.
- From cyberspace to public space: printing out reviews from google maps and pasting them up outside the actual business premises.
list of sentences:
Good:
- Hell Yes!
- They are known to be reliable, and have more than 25 years of experience.
- The service is very good and the staffs is helpful and always smiling.
- They are ready to make your vision a reality.
- Will definitely recommend this *** to other viewers.
- I really enjoyed this *****!
- Nice!
- No complaints.
- The folks here are always helpful.
- This place is sweet.
- It is a little expensive but it it worth it.
- Great place. Will go there again soon.
- Ohhh good view and pizza...
- Recommended to the tourists. Value is good as well.
- A beautifull architectural monument!
- I strolled around for a couple of hours in the early morning and took some gorgeous photos.
- Sometimes for free !
- Impressive and inspiring. Good hidden history.
- Surreal inside and outside!
- Just a great part of our city.
- Worth every penny of it I would go back in a heartbeat!
- The grounds are well kept.
- 'It had what i want buy there.'
- 'Regularly find deep discounts'
- 'It looks high quality here very well organized.'
- 'There service is outstanding also.'
- 'All there products are high quality, thanks **** for the wonderful service.'
- 'My wife and many of my friends love *****'
- 'Perhaps the most magical place and romantic in ******.'
- 'Serene. Picturesque – even (or especially) in a summer rain.'
- 'Charming and cozy ambience.Perfect for a special occasion.'
- 'I saw nothing that would deter me from recommending this place to anyone I know.'
- 'I will be going again soon.'
- 'I'll put my name to this recommendation.'
- 'Pricey but worth every cent.'
- 'I recommend this place to everyone!'
- 'Wonderful place to visit.'
- 'I couldn't of asked for better employees of the hotel.'
- 'It don't get any better in this lifetime!'
- 'A great place to be inspired.'
- 'The best way to spend an afternoon'
- 'One of the best of those I've seen in a long time!'
- 'Great service good afordable prise made my day.'
- 'I owe a lot to this place!'
- 'For me, it was like connecting back to my youth in the 50s and 60s when life was easy going.'
- 'Do Not Buy This Product.'
Bad:
- BEWARE!
- Thoroughly Disappointed.
- DO NOT DO TRADE WITH *****!!!
- Spectacularly poor.
- A big disappointment. I had high hopes for ****
- I was incredibly excited...then thoroughly disappointed.
- What a dump!!!
- One of the worst **** I've ever been to.
- It's over crowded and it's super chaotic.
- Bad Quality!
- It's gotten better over the years, but retains its dingy quality.
- Avoid this **** at all costs.
- Waste of $$$$$!!!!
- If you are a smoker this is not a place for you. You can't even leave and come back in.
- Price is very expensive and not worth the trip.
- Look, service and value are not there.
- It stinks!
- It was chaotic, disorganised and NOISY.
- Service was poor and inattentive, often had to go ask for things, but not surprising considering the crazy layout.
- Full of tourists and squirrels.
- It's worth feeding the pigeons and squirrels.
- It was a little creepy to know that some people have died in this place.
- All the rooms are roped off so you can't go in and appreciate anything up close.
- If you want classy this isn't the place for you.
- Not interested in getting served by scantilly clad women
- Pretty crowded by **** standard
- And yes, you'll sometimes find a deal that is amazing, but is it worth selling your soul to the devil for? Nah, I'll skip this location.
- TOURIST TRAP!
- Anything I have bought from here seems to be lesser quality.
- 'Extremely rude, poor customer service. They even had the police waiting outside for me.'
- 'Be prepared to be treated as a theif before you shop!'
- 'I left ****** in a really bad mood.'
- 'it's a nightmare!'
- 'Really not impressed'
- '***** has a C rating from the health department, the lowest grade possible."
- 'To say Im disgusted would be an understatement.'
- 'I can assure you that this will be the LAST!'
- 'They got bad reports with inspectors.'
- 'It was completely disgusting!
- 'Completely and utterly dissatisfied!!!!
- 'Mold on the walls!
- 'Too much to post. I'll never come back here!
- 'I won't be coming back here again live and learn'
- 'Should have made a police report.'
- 'Location hard to find'
- 'a man is just rude'
- 'The major downside is that you can't take little kids into it.'
- 'Look elsewhere!'
- 'A big rip off.'
- 'Waste of money and time better spent anywhere else.'
- 'The service is poor, actually there's no service.'
- 'Bottom line, unremarkable course, bad service and slow play.'
Day 1: Mon 14 Nov
Source Story
Owner of computer repair business (amusingly titled "That Computer Chap") accused of "stealing RAM" and "touching the 9 year old child" of a customer. Taken from BBC news site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15575171
The Review
"Robbed My RAM and Touched 9 Year Old What a scam artist, he stole RAM from my computer and replaced it with smaller chips hoping I wouldnt notice and also I later found out touched my 9 year old inappropriately. A Violator and a rogue trader. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!"
Other References
Jon Ronson doc about Astroturfing and controlling reputation online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/sep/07/jon-ronson-control-internet-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
Keywords
- Identity/reputation
- Freedom of speech
- Google power!
- Crowdsourced data
Elements
- Ethics of free speech
- Corruption of dataset
- Research google's TOS with relation to slanderous comments/reviews
Summary
- Unrelated offensive review to very innocent businesses with the "DO NOT TRADE WITH THIS MAN!" #hashtag.
Draft
got sum falafels from d falafel king in rottrdam but d falafel was ful of keys and he did stole a wheel from my bicycel. A violater and rogue falafel vendor. DO NOT DO TRADE WITH THIS MAN!!!
List of stories
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7894530/Barbie-signs-up-to-Foursquare.html
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/04/bt-pressure-block-pirate-bay
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8313225/Record-industry-dismisses-judges-criticism-of-piracy-evidence.html
- http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/spip.php?article2921&lang=fr
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15575171
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/13/bright-idea-mappiness-happiness-app
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/16/email-hacker-identity-rowenna-davis
The Nike Experiment : How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics
Source: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-07/lbnp_nike?currentPage=1
Interesting expressions:
- quantitative mindset
- living by numbers
- observer effect
- researcher and subject at the same time
- you are the data
- Open source spinoffs of Nike's web app > allows the user to retain control over their data while still using the Nike sensors - [neki http://neki.sourceforge.net/]