Last Sunday Dennis Ryerson, the editor-in-chief of the Indianapolis Star, wrote an editor's note announcing a change in the paper's policy. Crowdsourcing, he wrote, is a term with which his readers may be unfamiliar. His newsroom wasn't too familiar with it either. Nevertheless, "it's a concept we will be using more and more as we work harder to involve our readers in the preparation of our news reports, in print and online." With more papers feeling open to experimentation in the wake of falling revenues and scary business forecasts, I see this as a sign of things to come. Read the whole editorial here. Thanks to Jeff Jarvis, who points to the note on his blog Buzzmachine.
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Crowdsourcing: A Definition
- I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing:
The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.
The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
The Rise of Crowdsourcing
- Read the original article about crowdsourcing, published in the June, 2006 issue of Wired Magazine.
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