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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “crowdsourcing”

• We’re thankful for the opportunity to buy the Pabst company

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 571
  Pabst Blue Ribbon ’s maker is on the market. Their asking price is $300 million. We’re thankful for PBR. Anyone want to help crowdsource ownership of the cheapest, crappiest/best beer ever? Just think – $5 could help make the dream of many hipsters come true. And us. We want to own the company and make rivers ...
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• John Kearon: From Me to We Research

  
  Insights Qualitativos 2.0 — Authority: 129
  John Kearon, Chief Juicer at BrainJuicer, explains how he is turning research on its head by shifting the focus from asking people to explain their own behaviour, to using peoples’ innate social abilities to comment on the behaviour of others. A pioneer in the use of wisdom of crowds in research (since 2004), he ...
  9 hours ago

• Crowdsourcing Size Information

  
  3stylelife — Authority: 120
  This morning, my good friend pointed me to a very exciting development in online shopping. One of my favorite brands; Express, has recently (seemingly about the beginning of this month) launched an interactive section to their website. Users can now comment on individual garments, leaving general thoughts, their age, ...
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• Have you stopped editing Wikipedia? And if so, is it doomed?

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 141
  Research shows that the number of Wikipedia editors is plunging at an alarming rate. Are you one of the drop-outs, and will it make any difference to Wikipedias future? Wikipedia editors seem to be dropping like flies, according to research by Felipe Ortega , from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He ...
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• Crowdsourcing Design with 99designs

  
  Marketing Technology Blog — Authority: 528
  I recently wrote about my experience with crowdsourcing your design . The experience was a positive one and I discussed the No Spec movement and opposition to sites like it. Through a sponsored post, this week I tried 99designs . The experience on 99designs was very similar and, I hate to say it, still both ...
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• Crowdsourcers Are Bidding to Buy the Pabst Brewing Company

  
  Asylum — Authority: 727
  Filed under: Booze , Weird News For about the price of a pint at your local pub, you could own the Pabst Brewing Company. Using the principals of "crowdsourcing," two advertising agencies are attempting to raise enough money to buy the 165-year-old beer company, currently on the ... Read more   Permalink ...
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• The greying of Wikipedia

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 613
  Despite continued growth as one of the most-visited sites on the web, Wikipedia has a problem – it’s losing editors faster than it’s gaining new ones . Cue lots of veiled “told you so” from the Wall Street Journal [via /message ] : … as it matures, Wikipedia, one of the world’s largest ...
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• With school budget cuts looming, a call for likely casualties

  
  GothamSchools Newsroom — Authority: 627
  City schools are staring down their fifth round of budget cuts in the last two years, and we want to know what’s on the line. Mayor Bloomberg has ordered the Department of Education to cut its budget by 1.5 percent for the current fiscal year and to schedule another 2.5 percent cut for the fiscal year that begins ...
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• Open Flood Mapping - OSM Maps Update First

  
  Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog — Authority: 489
  Open Flood Mapping - OSM Maps Update First Yes the OpenStreetMapers have been on the ball and with on the ground surveys and have updated the Bridges (collapsed or to be demolished). Now this sounds a cruel but in reality shows the raw power of crowdsourced mapping. OpenStreetMap Updates [ source ] have come ...
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• 5min Earns Cash for Video Creators, Announces ‘Dummies’ Deal

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 740
  It’s easy to distribute your video online. The hard part is getting paid. Enter 5min, which encourages experts on a variety of subject matters to shoot five-minute videos on a given topic – usually a tutorial of some kind – and upload it onto 5min’s website, which also features similar content from larger ...
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• Wikipedia Volunteers Jumping Ship

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 438
  According to Julia Angwin and Geoffrey Fowler of The Wall Street Journal , volunteers who contribute and edit entries in Wikipedia are leaving faster than new contributors are joining the site. Angwin and Fowler present several possible explanations for the net loss in editors. One is that the site’s rules have ...
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• Why crowdsourcing may be doomed to failure

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 513
  One of the problems identified with this cconcept that we call crowdsourcing is the very fact that people get rather fed up with doing something for nothing over time and a rapid enthusiasm will eventually turn to apathy. Maybe Wikipedia is going to be a prime example of this as this graph show As Matt ...
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• Writers, money and the web: further thoughts on crowdsourcing

  
  Lisa Dempster — Authority: 120
  There is a bit of buzz about crowdsourcing at the moment. But how might it be relevant to writers? Kickstarter is an online portal for artists to get funding to get their projects off the ground. The idea is that something is offered in return though – a copy of the published book, for example, or access to a ...
  3 days ago

• L2A Links for November 23rd

  
  Learn to Adapt — Authority: 104
  The ‘wisdom of crowds’ loses steam | The Open Road – CNET News – Matt Asay shares a collection of evidence that the "crowdsourcing" revolution may be settling into traditional models. From the article: "Despite countless articles extolling the virtues and seeming omnipotence of "community" over the past ...
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• As Wiki Ages, Volunteers Drop Off

  
  ModCool — Authority: 160
  Wikipedia has become one of the largest crowdsourcing projects in the world since its debut about 8 years ago. It is also the fifth most popular website, garnering over 325 million visitors each month. Even with all this success, some are afraid for the future of the online encyclopedia. In recent years, volunteers ...
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• Playlists Could Be Free Music’s Killer App

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 740
  Music is too expensive to be free and too free to be expensive on a song-by-song basis, because on-demand music licensing rates are becoming too high for advertising to cover — as shown once again by imeem’s recent sale to MySpace at a heavy discount. This could be a boost to playlist sharing sites because ...
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• Is Wikipedia maxed out?

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 168
  Wikipedia may have reached the upper limits of what can be done with crowdsourcing, according to a researcher in Spain. read more
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• Showcase Your Members Videos with YouTube Direct

  
  Wild Apricot Blog main feed — Authority: 504
  What if you could display a playlist of member-created videos on your non-profits website, just like the big mainstream news media websites? YouTube Direct makes it easy....( read more )
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• Can Google Wave transform journalism?

  
  JP Digital Digest — Authority: 123
  A report on Mashable has taken an in-depth look at the impact that Google Wave is having on journalism. The real-time wiki collaboration platform is still in its preview phase and can be used by invite only, but already some media companies are using the tool for community building, real-time discussion, ...
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• Volunteers Log Off As Wikipedia Ages - WSJ.com

  
  Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check — Authority: 444
  An interesting shift for Wikipedia Wikipedias struggles raise questions about the evolution of "crowdsourcing," one of the Internet eras most cherished principles. Crowdsourcing posits that there is wisdom in aggregating independent contributions from multitudes of Web users. It has been promoted as a new and ...
  3 days ago

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