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Revision as of 15:55, 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!

Bad:

BEWARE!
Thoroughly Disappointed.
DO NOT DO TRADE WITH
Spectacularly poor.
A big disappointment. I had high hopes for ****

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

The Nike Experiment : How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

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/]

The subject and the researcher are the same person.

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 *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!
+Bad:
+* BEWARE!
+* Thoroughly Disappointed.
+* DO NOT DO TRADE WITH
+* Spectacularly poor.
+* A big disappointment. I had high hopes for ****
 ==Day 1: Mon 14 Nov==