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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Platform interfaces provide no messaging services or profiles that workers can access. As Lilly Irani points out: By hiding the labour and rendering it manageable through computing code, human computation platforms have generated an industry of start-ups claiming to be the future of data.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power.

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