March 18, 2026
Tag: McMaster university
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Identifying Real Photo Postcards Using Crowdsourcing
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Crowdsourcing. Yes, I too thought of it as two words, but in 2006 Merriam-Webster defined crowdsourcing as a noun meaning the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. Read about how a…
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September 5, 2024 8 Comments
Sidney Russell, a kid from Passaic, New Jersey and Carl Sigman, a law school graduate from Brooklyn, wrote a lively tune in 1947 called, “Ballerina.” Vaughn Monroe popularized it the same year. As best we can, Postcard History has used postcards to illustrate the emotion of dance, so as Monroe sang, “Dance Ballerina, Dance!”