Media. France. Journalisme 1. Internet. Video. Google. Mobile. Factchecking. Papier. Arte. EA. OS. ICQ. Ubuntu. Photoshop. Communitymanager. Warner. Bittorrent. Diplomatie. Journalisme 2. Journalisme 3. Journalisme 4. Journalisme 5. Nous allons bosser "au black" pour Mountain View | Media & Tech. Google annonce aujourd'hui l'acquisition de la société reCaptcha. C'est une toute petite boîte de 6 personnes donc la taille de l'acquisition n'est pas le sujet. Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est le modèle qui se cache derrière: nous faire bosser au noir pour le géant de Mountain View en améliorant la reconnaissance optique pour que les 10 millions de livres déjà digitalisés dans Google Books et ceux à venir soient encore de plus haute qualité.
En effet, un volume important (en millions...) de livres sont de vieux livres afin qu'ils soient libres de droit: la qualité du papier, de l'encre et de l'impression se sont dégradés. Le processus OCR est donc plus difficile. L'idée que je trouve brillante est d'utiliser les captchas produits par le service reCaptcha pour "faire d'une pierre deux coups" selon le proverbe: utiliser le captcha pour son but habituel: vérifier que celui qui veut commenter, écrire une contribution, etc... est bien un humain.
Comment ? Le modèle est donc finalement à 2 niveaux: Firefox Overtakes Internet Explorer in Germany (via everjean ) 2 December '09, 05:09pm Follow Firefox is now the most popular web browser in Germany, used by 44.2. percent of internet users, according to the latest W3B study from Fittkau and Maass, a respected German Internet research consultancy. In the rest of the world, it’s still quite a different story but in Germany Mozilla has reached a milestone and should be celebrating. The W3B survey reports that Mozilla’s Firefox browser has now overtaken the first time, and at least in Germany, Firefox dominates. The survey found that all versions of Firefox had a combined market share of 45.6 percent, while all versions of Internet Explorer, with a total of 44.4 per cent are close behind. All other alternatives, that is about Opera, Safari and Konqueror hold a measly 9.5 percent of the market.
Netscape, once the undisputed market leader, with 0.6 percent fades into insignificance. As mentioned however, the usage share of web browsers worldwide is a different story. Une 2ème vie pour Second Life ? (via @rolandlegrand - MixedRealities) Guerrilla reporting in difficult places (MIT News) In mid-2009, when thousands of Iranians took to the streets amid allegations of fraud in the June presidential election, the images of the protests that reached the West were almost exclusively those captured by ordinary citizens on cell phones and digital cameras and disseminated over the Internet, circumventing the government’s information clampdown.
So Iran was a fitting place to begin the virtual tour of the world that took place last Thursday evening at MIT’s Stata Center, under the auspices of MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media and the title “Civics in Difficult Places.” Hosted by Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at both Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Center for Future Civic Media, the two-hour event was a series of interviews, using the Web-based videoconferencing software Skype, with activists around the world who are helping create grassroots media networks in countries with hostile political environments or scant resources. How Journalists Can Use Google Voice to Improve Their Reporting.
NPR Launches New Online Local Journalism Venture With CPB and Knight Foundation Funding - (via @mgallivan ) Above: Four pilot sites of 12 launched with NPR's Project Argo. Washington, DC, (October 2, 2009) – NPR will launch a new journalism project to develop in-depth, local coverage on topics critical to communities and the nation, in a new effort funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the groups announced today. The new funding – $2 million from CPB and $1 million from Knight Foundation – provides a pilot group of NPR stations with the resources to expand original reporting, and to curate, distribute and share online content about high-interest, specialized subjects. It is the first time that CPB and Knight Foundation have jointly funded a project of this type. The two-year pilot will help a dozen stations establish themselves as definitive sources of news on a topic selected by each one as most relevant to its community, such as city politics, the changing economy, healthcare, immigration or education.
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