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Our tax money at work. . .

• RevRal 17y ago
  It sounds to me like it could be valuable. On the surface, we'll see how long it takes. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing was done in a couple of days. And it will also cause a lot of people to say: "wow, the power of the internet." It is probably a good way to gauge the potential influence of social networking on the internet. Which is a force that continues to grow, and we should do what we can to understand it. I'm interested to see how it'll be accomplished. It might pinpoint the best use of networking sites for promotion.
  • mad44 17y ago
    I bet it will only take a day to solve this. Several groups are planning to data mine using Twitter to solve the problem.
• joshu 17y ago
  Actually, it's a pretty interesting problem: what are the techniques by which an ad-hoc group of people can self-organize or cooperate? It's an aggressively large problem (anywhere in the US?) that seems quite exciting; they'll probably learn a hell of a lot.