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Revision as of 16:01, 15 November 2011
Day 2: Tues 15 Nov
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.
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.
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/]