2009年5月4日 星期一

citizen science

This "citizen science" movement is not exactly new, but it has grown fresh legs as the Internet and social-networking sites help people with uber-specified and often bizarre interests gang up for a cause.

backyard scientist

When those photos -- from ordinary people all over the world -- are paired with the photographer's location and uploaded to a database, the information would be more valuable than anything scientists could come up with on their own.

It's gaining steam(之前沒有什麼特別,但是現在不一樣了)

But using Twitter more in Apple products could help, especially as the messaging/microblogging service picks up more steam.

Egypt rounds out the list at number 10.(使得這份list變得完整)
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