Josh Catone on how Twitter can be used to harvest information from events that are in progress, such as voting in elections. Sure there’s a few hurdles to clear, and a lot of sometimes useless data to sift through, but it can very effective.
Twitter works well as a vehicle for news or data gathering because [...]
Twittering the election, hey there’s another vote for Obama
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 22 October, 2008 to the technology subset
Web altruism: in it for the hits not the giving of gifts
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 7 October, 2008 to the comment subset
Not to sound too mercenary, or put down those who are genuinely interested in helping others, but it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that people contributing to websites other than their own, are hoping their efforts will in-fact win them some recognition or profile as a result:
The success of “crowdsourced” websites like YouTube and [...]
