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40% of Twitter is “pointless babble”

Posted by Chris Renner on August 17, 2009

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Ironically, this post would make a much more appropriate tweet, but nontheless I thought it worth posting here. Pear Analytics has audited Twitter content and found that only about 1 in 10 message has any real value, and as much as 40% of tweets are “pointless babble”. For the curious, that category includes [...]

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reCAPTCHA images aiding in book digitization

Posted by Chris Renner on May 3, 2009

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I was cruising the web tonight and ended up at reCAPTCHA.net, the image verification service run by Carnegie Mellon University.  They claim there are over 60 million reCAPTCHAs completed every day now, and they’ve launched a program now that essentially supplies the reCAPTCHA word images from various books that are currently not machine readable and [...]

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