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Crowd-sourced seismological data? Quake-Catcher Network Home Page

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geographic, OpenSource

I tend to think that one of the more important distinguishing features of Web2.0 applications is the collaborative nature of the technology, which has opened up previously arcane vocational amd professional specialties to amateurs. This is what Clay Shirky refers to as “mass amateurization”. The really interesting thing about mass amateurization is that it has [...]

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