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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...
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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. And they weren't the only ones.
Crowdsourcing
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Story Tools Story Images
Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing
...New social networking technologies can be used to solve down-to-earth human needs, by enlisting millions of Americans in service to the country."
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Ethics of Crowdsourcing – What Constitutes an Abuse of the Commons | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne
While getting ready to launch Finder! we had an internal debate whether or not to put limits on dataset downloading. There were several options, ranging from requiring a user to be logged in before they downloaded to limiting the number of downloads a user could make in a day. A lot of the argument centered around the value of raw data – echoing the O’Reilly manifesto that “ data is the Intel inside “. This belief holds that the value of the NAVTEQ’s and TeleAtlas’s of the world is derived from the proprietary data they collected. One side of the company felt that by not limiting access to data we were giving away the family jewels.