Source: www.awarenessnetworks.com Crowdsourcing is the coolest thing to happen since Napster. Everybody can gain from it. It's allows the public to regain some control over culture. We have the opportunity to contribute to this culture with significantly less barriers that's been a hinderance in the past (i.e. distribution and price, etc... ).
In a corporate perspective, this can potentially be a means to make some serious cash! They could use it as a device to find out more about what markets to venture, how to go about it and all the while, satisfying us because they now work for the public and not the other way around. It opens up doors to new ideas perhaps neglected before.
It makes for this world to be a friendlier place because information is shared; anybody can add or subtract information as they see fit. It levels the playing field among professionals and amateurs to promote their works. But more importantly, crowdsourcing shifts the focus as to what objectives information dissemination ought to be.
Should we concentrate on quality of product or just the mere idea of getting the chance to provide a product? How does it affect the product in terms of reliability and accuracy because the public is dissimenating information as opposed to "writers"? Those are two among other questions that ultimately arises from a debate worth having.
Check out Jeff Howe article "The Rise of Crowdsourcing" in Wired Magazine. It's where the talk of it all started!
It makes for this world to be a friendlier place because information is shared; anybody can add or subtract information as they see fit. It levels the playing field among professionals and amateurs to promote their works. But more importantly, crowdsourcing shifts the focus as to what objectives information dissemination ought to be.
Should we concentrate on quality of product or just the mere idea of getting the chance to provide a product? How does it affect the product in terms of reliability and accuracy because the public is dissimenating information as opposed to "writers"? Those are two among other questions that ultimately arises from a debate worth having.
Check out Jeff Howe article "The Rise of Crowdsourcing" in Wired Magazine. It's where the talk of it all started!
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