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The Spider and the Web: A Crowdsourcing Experiment

If you read your blog posts on the same day they’re written, please join in later today for an experiment in scholarly crowdsourcing. I’ll be posting a historical mystery on this blog at exactly 3pm Eastern/Noon Pacific/20:00 GMT on Thursday, April 16, 2009, and will be linking to it from Twitter. I’ll be asking my followers on Twitter and blog subscribers to see if they can figure out what an unusual object is within one hour. You can follow the crowdsourced analysis live on Twitter, or find the results in this space in a day or two.

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4 Responses to “The Spider and the Web: A Crowdsourcing Experiment”

  1. Scholarly Crowdsourcing: Twitter Does History | David S. Bill IV said on April 17th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    [...] posted on his blog that he was going to conduct an experiment using his blog and Twitter. He would post an artifact [...]
  2. Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog » Blog Archive » The Spider and the Web: Results said on April 29th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    [...] those who didn’t follow this experiment live via Twitter, you should first read the two initial posts in this series. The experiment was fairly simple: I prepared followers of my blog and [...]
  3. The Mobile Historian « history-ing said on May 3rd, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    [...] Cohen recently explored the advantage of crowdsourcing when he posted a historical puzzle on his blog at the start [...]
  4. “Tweaching” with Twitter « Digital Pedagog said on January 22nd, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    [...] Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, conducted a crowdsourcing experiment that simulated the traditional “author’s query” where “a scholar ask readers of a journal [...]

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