Simon Willison’s Weblog

Solved: where the civil servant really wrote that message to Hazel Blears. There’s an interesting usability / understanding-of-technology story here.

# 7th July 2009, 5:41 pm / usability, theyworkforyou

Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com. Launched this morning at BarCamp London by Matthew Somerville—TheyWorkForYou now has video from BBC Parliament but they need your help matching it exactly to their transcripts from Hansard. Neat example of a game that helps process large amounts of data.

# 1st June 2008, 1:52 pm / barcamplondon, barcamplondon4, matthew-somerville, theyworkforyou, mysociety, video, timestamping, government, political-hacking