It’s easy to see the downside of citizen journalism when right-wing bloggers attack rape victims, but those same tools have also been used to expose government secrets and reveal crucial information… Read more »
British blogger Brown Moses, also known as Eliot Higgins, has become a leading source of fact-checked information about military activity in Syria and elsewhere, despite having no journalistic training. And now… Read more »
Eliot Higgins is a blogger — also known as Brown Moses — who has become a leading source of information about Syria, and his success shows how anyone with the right… Read more »
From the front room of his flat in a British suburb, an unemployed man with no journalistic training named Eliot Higgins has become the go-to source for information about weapons and… Read more »
The outsourcing market as a whole is approximately a $115 billion industry, and the top 14 crowdsourcing firms alone brought in about $50 million in revenue in 2011. Here’s how companies can harness this power. Read more »
In 2011, we’re seeing extraordinary growth of big data in these areas along three dimensions: volume, complexity and speed. Additionally, data science is contributing significantly to operational efficiencies in these sectors… Read more »
Around the end of the year, the hype surrounding Quora kicked into overdrive. The Q&A site founded by ex-Facebook talent first raised eyebrows with round of financing last March that valued… Read more »