Awesome, really rich and featureful, I like the feature extraction to
find researcher names etc., and how it can then feed those into a google
scholar search when you try to add a paper reference.
1) Agree with Seb on Twitter login link not being obvious
2) Do you have to mark a paper as being fully sourced for it to appear
as such in the browser extension? I didn't notice the button straight
away and quite a few people might miss it
3) The browser extension is really cool, will definitely take this site
from being a curiosity to a routine tool
4) I added a source to
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2202434/Taking-Prozac-Don-t-drive-Pills-raise-risk-having-accident-70.html
really nice and easily. The browser extension does light up the address
bar icon, but I kinda think that maybe the information it finds should
be more prominent, maybe actually inserted into the article below the
headline. This is because most articles aren't going to be appropriate
for sourcing (sourcable articles some fraction of all articles, sourced
articles some fraction of that at first), so I'm not going to be
checking the icon for every article I view but would tolerate some
intrusive notice if there is a source.
Looking forward to using it regularly, help with the the power of crowd
sourcing!
Tim
On 13/09/2012 07:58, Seb Bacon wrote:
It's really great!
One small bit of feedback - when I went to log in with twitter, it
took me a few moments to understand that the text link "twitter" was
the login action. I think that would be better as a "log in with
twitter" button (same goes for Facebook, obv)
Seb
On 13 September 2012 03:55, Ben Campbell<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to announce a project I'm working on: http://unsourced.org
It's a web site for linking news articles to their sources. You know, all
those "Scientists say Red Wine Causes/Cures Cancer!" type of article with no
link to the actual research.
You can also assign warning labels to news articles, so toxic/hazardous
material can be labelled as such.
There's also a browser extension (just Chrome, so far, but a Firefox one
will follow), so you can see sources and warning labels as you read online
news.
I want to build up a community of people on unsourced.org who collaborate to
track down missing sources.
So I'd be really grateful for help in getting the word our, via mentions on
blog posts, twitter, mailing lists, whatever!
There's a little more background at:
http://unsourced.posterous.com/
and I'm happy to answer any questions about it all.
All feedback most welcome - it's all under development still, so I'd love to
know what rough edges stand out the most :-)
Thanks,
Ben.
--
Ben Campbell
unsourced.org developer
Coder at the Media Standards Trust
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