Crowdsourcing document mining. A nice story about how London’s Guardian newspaper enlisted its readers to dig through a couple hundred thousand documents released as part of the MP expensing scandal: http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/four-crowdsourcing-lessons-from-the-guardians-spectacular-expenses-scandal-experiment/
Tom 6:45 pm on June 23, 2009 Permalink
You can find the actual site here: http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/