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Crowdsourcing in the News
- July 27, 2008: The Washington PostWhile I was on vacation The Post's Jane Black dropped a line to ask me what I thought about crowdsourcing in restaurants. Naturally, I replied that I don't think about crowdsourcing in restaurants. In fact, I'm always asked when crowdsourcing doesn't work, and I've tended to use just such retail examples as this. After all, do you really want the crowd making your tofu chili? This sure shows my lack of imagination. Turns out that a few entrepreneurial restaurateurs are doing just this. Black's piece made A1 in yesterday's paper.
- March 25, 2007: New York Times and NPR's On the MediaAnother twofer: First, in yesterday's Times Jason Pontin takes a first-hand look at Mechanical Turk, ChaCha.com and Jeff Bezos' notion of "artificial artifical intelligence." His experience is less than satisfactory, and a reminder that not everything should be crowdsourced.My favorite NPR show, On the Media, interviews TPM Muckraker's Paul Kiel about the site's recent experiment in crowdsourcing. Muckraker asked its readers to parse the 3,000 emails pertaining to the firing of federal prosecutors that Dept. of Justice released last week. Within hours Muckraker readers were ferreting out compromising passages, some of which led to news leads for MSM pubs, further evidence that the crowd has a promising future in performing investigative functions. Shady politicians (is that phrase redundant?) beware.
- March 19, 2007: New York Times and Detroit Free PressToday's a twofer: The New York Times' David Carr writes about Assignment Zero in his column, "The Media Equation." I edited David a few times at the now defunct Inside.com (It shined brightly but briefly). If memory serves, he could recall obscure circulation figures on certain newspapers and magazines from memory. No mean media critic, in other words. So I was elated to see him give Assignment Zero a cautiously optimistic treatment.Crowdsourcing also made the Detroit Free Press today, where religion writer David Crumm writes about how theologians and pastors are using the model to let their congregations "shape a church's worship and programs." I haven't followed the crowdsourcing in religion angle as much as I'd like, and this is a great introduction to the subject.
- March 16, 2007: Radio: WNYC - Crowdsourcing and MusicDoes user-generated content threaten the recording industry? That presumes there's still a recording industry to speak of. I'm kidding—kinda. But CD sales get more and more anemic and companies building businesses out of unknown bands—call it music by the crowd—look more and more interesting (and viable) all the time. Yesterday I was on one of my favorite WNYC shows, "Soundcheck" discussing all this and more. Stream or download the show here. You can listen to my segment alone (it runs about 20 minutes), but I recommend you listen to the opening segment on the bizarre-but-intriguing midomi.com. Midomi is a social networking site that allows you to search for music by singing a few bars into a microphone connected to your computer. Soundcheck brought in a trained opera singer to put Midomi's software to the test, with humorous results. American Idol-meets-Myspace-meets-iTunes-meets-voice-recognition-software. That's some mash-up. What will those Stanford smarties dream up next?
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Jeff,
I sincerely hope your family had a wonderful holiday in light of all events this past year (ups and downs) professional and personal.
Your honesty about your travels down this unknown road with Finn is touching. I feel you you, wish for you, and hope you are all well.
Best (from a new home in San Francisco),
Jasmine
Posted by: jasmine | January 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM
I recently received a grant to research ways we can support the families of Special Needs Kids. We have a plan to do in depth action research with a few parents but I am also going on Facebook and other sources to ask for people to write about their experiences plus see if anyone has research abolut what is the best way to support the parents and other family members as Peers and Paraprofessionals.
I have read Wikinomics and got your book. I have not seen much in either about health issues. I have been training faith based groups to provide Peer care, counsel and support for families and individuals for a long time.
Crowdsourcing mirrors what is happening in faith groups internationally. The media is still caught in the old paradigm of hierarchy when the grass roots explosion of care and mutual support happened in the Seventies and has radically change faith groups all over the world.
Posted by: Gary Sweeten | January 27, 2009 at 09:02 PM
In the Eastern Conference Semi-finals, they defeated the Charlotte Hornets four games to one to advance to the Eastern Conference Championship for the first time facing the Boston Celtics. This series is remembered for Kidd having his left eye swollen shut diving for a loose ball in game, he received 32 stitches. After winning game one versus the Celtics, the Nets lost game two at home.
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