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15 Jul 09

Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment » Nieman Journalism Lab

Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking. We wanted the details, so I rang up the developer, Simon Willison, for his tips about deadline-driven software, the future of public records requests, and how a well-placed mugshot can make a blacked-out PDF feel like a detective story.

He offered four big lessons:

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'I did heroin once, just to be sociable' | Rock | guardian.co.uk Music

In fact, there have been occasions when I've been getting on with a woman very well and as soon as she found out I was in the Fall she went right off me

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05 Sep 07

The wiki way | Technology | Guardian Unlimited

"The big objection, for years, was that managers would never learn to type," says Tapscott, who speaks in italics. "I'm not kidding. For years, with all these profundities and great visions, my entire life was reduced to me making the case that you can le

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04 Sep 07

Odd clothes and unorthodox views - why MI5 spied on Orwell for a decade | News | Guardian Unlimited Books

"This man has advanced communist views ... He dresses in a bohemian fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours."

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