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V0.10: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/review.php <br /> | |||
Our meagre attempt at a review generator: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi | V0.01: Our meagre attempt at a review generator: http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/~dyoung/cgi-bin/reviews.cgi | ||
===Source Code=== | ===Source Code=== |
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/]