SafeRide. From Earth to the Universe: Distributed curation and global to local methodology | IYA2009 Updates | Astronomy 2009. Unbound | books are now in your hands. #1 Site for Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding, & Open Innovation News | Daily Crowdsource. iStock Photo: Royalty Free Stock Photography, Vector Art Images, Music & Video Stock Footage. Wired 14.06: The Rise of 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. By Jeff HowePage 1 of 4 next » 1. The Professional Story Tools Story Images Click thumbnails for full-size image: Claudia Menashe needed pictures of sick people.
In October 2004, she ran across a stock photo collection by Mark Harmel, a freelance photographer living in Manhattan Beach, California. The National Health Museum has grand plans to occupy a spot on the National Mall in Washington by 2012, but for now it’s a fledgling institution with little money. After several weeks of back-and-forth, Menashe emailed Harmel to say that, regretfully, the deal was off. iStockphoto, which grew out of a free image-sharing exchange used by a group of graphic designers, had undercut Harmel by more than 99 percent. He can’t, of course. It took a while for Harmel to recognize what was happening. Distributed Productino (Gutenberg project) Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) The Trustees of Distributed Proofreaders Foundation are concerned about a new international agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The TPP will result in significant copyright term extensions in signatory countries, which will have the immediate impact of slowing or halting growth of the public domain in many parts of the world. The agreement was drafted in secret. Public scrutiny and consideration are now needed for copyright term extension, and many other aspects of the agreement. Follow the Distributed Proofreaders Blog on Twitter: Site Concept Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books.
During proofreading, volunteers are presented with a scanned page image and the corresponding OCR text on a single web page. How You Can Help Register with the site as a volunteerand/orDonate to the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation. Volunteering at Distributed Proofreaders Current Progress. Crowdsourcing Journalism. Funky Footwear. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble. Foldit. Crowdsourcing Examples. CrowdSPRING. ShortTask.Com. CrowdFlower.