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The Iran thing is an amazing phenomenon, but insofar as reinventing journalism goes, I think this story takes the cake.
The Guardian applied the Amazon Mechanical Turk model to research, using their own readers as analysts to sift through two million pages of scandal.
Most of the details in this blog post are regarding the technical decisions that went into making this work — “a framework is like an offset press”? okay — but the details are light and written for the layperson. Don’t miss this one.
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