Hi,
Finally, "so-what-cracy" vs. "so-weak-cracy" in our time (on YouTube)!
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2008-03-12a.299.4
Regards,
James
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Fiona Romeo wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:48:28 +0100
> From: Fiona Romeo <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: [MCG] Crowd-sourcing video timestamping
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> Hello,
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> I figured you'd all be very interested in this new project from MySociety. They've built a 'really simple, rather addictive system that lets anyone with a few spare minutes match up a randomly-selected speech from Hansard against the correct snippet of video.'
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> http://www.theyworkforyou.com/video/
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> Since they launched the system on 1 June, 16,691 clips have been timestamped, which represents close to 50% of their entire video archive.
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> Here's a post about their progress: http://www.mysociety.org/2008/06/11/awesome-progress-on-video-timestamping/
> And here's the science bit: http://www.mysociety.org/2008/06/12/theyworkforyou-video-the-flash-player/
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> Fiona
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> Fiona Romeo
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