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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==

[[File:nike80s-fail.jpg | thumbnail | Nike's original monitor from the 1980s]]
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/]

[[File:pie.jpg | thumbnail | The subject and the researcher are the same person.]]

===Image of Nike's web app===
[[File:nike.jpg]]

===Radiohead!===
[[File:fitter.jpg]]