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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: theyworkforyou</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/theyworkforyou.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-07-07T17:41:35+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Solved: where the civil servant really wrote that message to Hazel Blears</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/7/solved/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-07-07T17:41:35+00:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T17:41:35+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/7/solved/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/06/telegraph-hazel-blears-expenses-civil-servant-sacking"&gt;Solved: where the civil servant really wrote that message to Hazel Blears&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
There’s an interesting usability / understanding-of-technology story here.


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</summary><category term="theyworkforyou"/><category term="usability"/></entry><entry><title>Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/1/video/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-06-01T13:52:55+00:00</published><updated>2008-06-01T13:52:55+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/1/video/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/video/"&gt;Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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.


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