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Jon Udell has a great podcast where he interviews Janis Dickinson, who directs the citizen science program at at Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology. On his blog Jon writes:

Extracting signal from noise is, of course, one of the classic bread-and-butter activities of information science. What’s fascinating here is the Web 2.0 angle. Birdwatchers are famously passionate data collectors who develop reputations among their peers. When they contribute their data to eBird — and thence to the Avian Knowledge Network — those reputations can begin to be measured, and used to tune the analysis of a large body of contributed data.

These are, of course, issues directly relevant to EOL. Jon has long been interested in integrating information (including digital libraries), social networking, and how people interact with technology. His podcast is a mine of useful information. Click this link to subscribe to it in iTunes.

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