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The Crowdsourcerer: NowPublic
By JACK KAPICA
Globe and Mail Update"he June issue of Wired magazine coined an interesting buzzword: "crowdsourcing." It's like outsourcing, but with a large number of unpaid or... Digg Crowdsources Convention Interviews
Citizen engagement with political processes has never been as diffuse and 'technified' as it is today. Although crowdsourcing interview questions for politicians isn't a particularly radical or new concept of civic... Opening a Restaurant: Build a Community Around it First: Elements In Washingt...
In the same way that many books built an audience before a word was ever written thanks to their author's penning a blog or contributing to various online publications, the 'model' is applied to other areas. In Online, a Community Gathers to Concoct A Neighborhood Eatery,...Power to the People, Electric Cars Now! from Finland
Rather than build a brand new electric vehicle a Finish Non Profit Sähköautot - Nyt! (or Electric Cars - Now!) wants to give power to the people by inviting individuals and companies the world over to offer solutions for a kit to turn Toyota Corollas into electric... Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise
This seems to suggest that all it takes is one rotten apple to ruin the collective's wisdom, but I don't know that I agree. Every online community is different; and if the crowd's wisdom is strong, and its critical... Help Curate A Museum Exhibition
Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition is a photography installation that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration... Facebook Translation: Free but Flawed
Facebook is finding the limits of crowdsourcing: if nobody "owns" the task, then quality control becomes impossible. Translation tasks are particularly tough, since, only speakers of the language in question would... Crowdsourcing the Writing Process
Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in the experimental 'meta-crowdsourcing' projectAssignment Zero, with Jay Rosen, Wired, and the folks at NewAssignment.net, which undertook to explore all of the ways... Distilling the Wisdom of the Crowds...
Jeff Jarvis, buzzmachine.com set up a down and dirty survey using Google forms. This will be an interesting app to experiment with. Jeff's about journalism has some interesting results though it isn't tabulated well. He says it only took him a couple minutes to set up, so... Flickr to Host Library of Congress Photos
Library of Congress: We've got all of these images but they're so hard to organize. We should have some way of identifying them with descriptive words! But how are we going to tag them all?Flickr: Why not crowdsource... Accounts from inside Burma
it's time the world do something about the military oppression in Burma."Buddhist monks are continuing their protests in Rangoon, despite the use of force by the Burmese security forces. People inside Burma have been e-mailing the BBC News website and talking to the BBC...Crowds are Brilliant - Individuals are Leaders
Over the last few years there has been a push, especially in the business world, to trust the brilliance of crowds to make major financial decisions. This can be seen in many different applications from finding new places to mine for minerals to finding lost people using...Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India
"Google has been sending GPS kits to India that enable locals to make more detailed maps of their area. After the data has been uploaded and then verified against other participant's data it becomes a part of the map. The process is very reminiscent of what Open Street Map,...Wal-Mart goes 2.0
Wal-Mart may be many things but they are not dumb. Even they now recognize it's the people who run the show:"The road to online retail dominance, as Wal-Mart is finally figuring out, is paved with customer...Men With Movie Cameras
Man With A Movie Camera becomes Men WIth Movie Cameras? Or should it be "Manchester with Movie Cameras" ?In a crowdsourcey kind of angle on the classic 1929 Dziga Vertov film by "Man With A Movie Camera",...
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