This is an interesting contrast to this, also released today:<br><br><a href="http://www.refreshanalytics.com/">http://www.refreshanalytics.com/</a><br><br>Refresh
Analytics shows developers what their users are doing for purposes of
analysis and ultimately money-making. User Labour Markup Language, by
contrast, is an attempt to reveal how much labour users put into UG
content sites such as Facebook.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Peter Timusk <<a href="mailto:ptimusk@sympatico.ca">ptimusk@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Interesting I have started to develop a protest DTD file a few years<br>
back for recording protest events.<br>
<br>
It should still be here<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/ptimusk/protest_dtd.html" target="_blank">http://www3.sympatico.ca/ptimusk/protest_dtd.html</a><br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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<br>
On 1-May-08, at 7:59 AM, Burak Arikan wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> Today is May Day, we celebrate the social and economic achievements<br>
> of the labor movement ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</a><br>
> Labor_movement ). In this important day, we wanted to announce our<br>
> project User Labor.<br>
><br>
> User Labor Markup Language (ULML), is an open data structure to<br>
> outline the metrics of user participation in social web services.<br>
> Our aim is to construct criteria and context for determining the<br>
> value of user labor for distribution. We believe that universality,<br>
> transparency, and accessibility of user labor metrics will<br>
> ultimately lead to more sustainable service cycles in social web.<br>
><br>
> Please see the examples on the User Labor website. Your feedback<br>
> and contribution is very important to improve this project.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://userlabor.org/" target="_blank">http://userlabor.org/</a><br>
><br>
> Thank you,<br>
> Burak<br>
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