En final att minnas
17th May
I helgen fick en final mitt fulla intresse. Och inte var det #ESC2011 – melodifestivalen som var på alla läppar. Och inte heller var det #VM2011 (#twittpuck?) – en final jag faktiskt inte var medveten om innan sent på kvällen, när jag på facebook såg diverse uppdateringar från glada finnar och oglada svenskar.
Nej, i helgen var det final i #TSL3. Och där vann Sverige.
Teamliquid Star League är den just nu största serien i det man kallar för esport. Närmare bestämt inom spelet StarCraft 2.
Tävling i datorspel. Nördvarning. Eller?
Det intressanta är att jag själv först blev introducerad till det för lite mer än ett halvår sedan. På en födelsedagsfest råkade jag ihop med en kompis kompis som brann för det. Slutade med att jag tittade på en match på youtube dagen efter för att se vad han var så lyrisk om. …
The Facebook-Novum
Intro (by me – Karsten): Second part of the crowdsourcing experiment made by the german blogger Sascha Lobo regarding what he deemed as suspicious fast growth of a political fanpage. First part in english can be found here. Original in german is here: part 1, part 2.
tl, dr: The Facebook page “Wir wollen Guttenberg zurück” has after my estimations largely true fans.
The “Call for crowd action” last Friday has found a surprising uptake from the community: in addition to more than 900 comments there where close to 100 emails with all sorts of clues, from quasi professional data analysis up to pure speculations. Several scripts have been written to tracks the number of fans of the Guttenberg-page, some of them from before the call to action, and there has been a very, very extensive datacollection. Big thanks to all who …
Call for crowd action: Is there cheating with the Guttenberg page on Facebook?
Intro (by me – Karsten): The german defence minister von Guttenberg has been in some recent controversies and just recently stepped down from his post because of these. The german mediablogger Sascha Lobo thinks there might be even more fishy things going on… an interesting example of crowdsourcing, facebook and fame (original in german can be found here)
Does someone (doesn’t have to be the page admins) cheat with the fan numbers on the Facebook page “Wir wollen Guttenberg zurück” (“We want Guttenberg back”)? Let us try to figure it out together – I will explain how in this article.
It started fairly plausible: Guttenberg (background info here) filled the halls and the sides of the boulevards – why should he not be able to inspire even the Facebook masses? Especially since Facebook is growing like crazy in Germany, there are now more …
