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The blowback from President Obama's interactive town hall has been intense and widespread . In dismissing a legitimate policy issue the President seems to have shown an uncharacteristic degree of political tone deafness. There are many excellent reasons to rethink the War on Drugs—that most ill-fated of American conflagrations, and mostly bad ones for staying the course. Many in Obama's base felt betrayed by the brush off.
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What Does Crowdsourcing Really Mean?
Editor's Note: This story is reprinted from Assignment Zero , an experiment in open-source, pro-am journalism produced in collaboration with Wired News. This week, we'll be republishing a selection of Assignment Zero stories on the topic of "crowdsourcing." All in all, Assignment Zero produced 80 stories , essays and interviews about crowdsourcing; we're reprinting 12 of the best.
Best Books on Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing - Wikinomics, Collaboration & Management - Open innovation and crowdsourcing
Although blogs and online journals are much faster to report on the latest developments, books can provide an interesting synthesis of overall trends and insights. Here’s a list of 13 pioneering books about crowdsourcing and open innovation . I hope you enjoy reading some of these excellent books, and please feel free to share your remarks and suggestions below. Patricia Seybold argues that companies should seek innovation by actively engaging and bringing their customers into the product development process. Robert Motzek’s study investigates the motivational profiles of user innovators from a manufacturer’s point of view, focusing on lead users and tool kit users. The analysis is supported by two exploratory case studies of Spreadshirt and Threadless.
Noah Raford » How to Build a Collective Intelligence Platform to Crowdsource Almost Anything
Introduction The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence recently published an important overview of the theory and mechanisms behind successful crowdsourcing efforts. Their report, called “ Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence “, can be found here . Their research reveals similarities behind many high-profile collective intelligence (CI) systems, including Threadless , Wikipedia and InnoCentive .
10 Crowdsourcing Social Media Tools » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg
Since we’re about to jump into 2010 (that’s “ twenty ten ,” everyone), I wanted to ring in the new year with something that will hopefully kick start your collaborative efforts. This is a guest post from Shevonne Polastre, who wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr , a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. It’s a model that is based on many people contributing to an idea, product, or service that would have usually been done by one person.
The phrase “on-demand human computation” has a sinister tinge to it, if only because the idea of sucking the brain power out of a group of people is generally frowned upon. And yet, if you call it “crowdsourcing” everything sounds so much friendlier! But calling Soylent “crowdsourced copy-editing” isn’t quite fair, since the system performs the type of jobs that are somewhere in the gray area between man and machine. More than a spell check, not quite the nightside copy editor versed in AP style, Soylent really is on-demand computation. It’s what all word processors need, the “Can you take a look at this?” button with a small workforce of people at your disposal.
It’s people! Meet Soylent, the crowdsourced copy editor » Nieman Journalism Lab
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The Myth of Crowdsourcing - Forbes.com
The recent coverage of the $1 million Netflix prize was rightly heralded as a victory for crowdsourcing. The competition was designed to create a better algorithm for recommending films. But in the popular press, and in the minds of millions of people, the word crowdsourcing has created an illusion that there is a crowd that solves problems better than individuals. For the past 10 years, the buzz around open source has created a similar false impression. The notion of crowds creating solutions appeals to our desire to believe that working together we can do anything, but in terms of innovation it is just ridiculous.
Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)
Treehugger Snowmageddon is a website set up to help people dig out of the blizzard in New York. It was originally set up last year in Washington; it is an attempt to crowdsource information, where people can use their...