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Why the open source way trumps the crowdsourcing way
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| A while back, I wrote an article about why
| the term crowdsourcing bugs me. Another
| thing that drives me nuts? When people
| confuse crowdsourcing and open source. My
| friend David Burney wrote an interesting
| post on this subject a while back
| highlighting the differences.
|
| It finally hit me the other day just why
| the open source way seems so much more
| elegantly designed (and less wasteful) to
| me than what I'll call "the crowdsourcing
| way."
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http://opensource.com/business/10/4/why-open-source-way-trumps-crowdsourcing-way
Crowdsourced Project Relies On Fans For Rotoscoping A Johnny Cash Video
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| Digital artist Aaron Koblin has a fantastic
| knack for creating innovative, beautiful,
| fascinating works that merge the worlds of
| data and technology with art. Using
| Amazon's Mechanical Turk, he created The
| Sheep Market by commissioning 10,000 online
| workers each to draw a left-facing sheep.
| Ten Thousand Cents created a representation
| of a $100 bill, also drawn by 10,000
| turkers. Now, he's back with a video
| project, and is creating a crowdsourced
| music video for Johnny Cash's song, "Ain't
| No Grave."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100414/1541069015.shtml
The Case for Being Disruptively Good
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| What's different, immediately, about a
| hyperconnected world is that information
| flows much faster and more freely. So it's
| less costly to ascertain who's really evil
| â and who's really good. So the first force
| is information.
|
| [...]
|
| Google's just climbed back up to the third
| rung, competition â by leaving China, it is
| once again competing not just to gain more
| share, but to do more good, by offering
| higher quality services, instead of
| compromised ones (in turn, amplifying
| pressure on rivals like Microsoft).
|
| Apple's on the fourth rung, disruption. It
| is utilizing radical new building blocks,
| markets â the Apps Store, iAds â and their
| great promise is to reinvent the deep
| economics of media and advertising. Will
| they live up to it? Only time will tell
| whether Jobs' insistence on heavy-handed
| control is hubris â or whether it really
| does radically rewrite the balance of good
| and bad. If the former, Apple will likely
| stumble back down the ladder of next-gen
| strategy.
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http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/04/the_case_for_being_disruptivel.html
Grand Challenges of the 21st Century -- Your Ideas Welcome
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| One of the goals of President Obama's
| Strategy for American Innovation is to
| harness science and technology to address
| the "grand challenges" of the 21st century
| in areas such as health, clean energy,
| national security, and education and life-
| long learning. Grand challenges are
| important national goals like putting a man
| on the Moon or sequencing the human genome
| that require advances in science and
| technology to achieve. They also have the
| potential to drive sustainable economic
| growth and the creation of quality jobs.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/04/13/grand-challenges-21st-century-your-ideas-welcome
Evan Williams: âTwitter Is the Ecosystemâ
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| Twitterâs fundamental tenet, Williams said,
| is that âThe open exchange of information
| has a positive impact on the world. Our
| goal as a company is to maximize this
| impact, thatâs what weâre about and itâs
| what drives everything we do.â Thatâs why
| Twitter made those deals with Google, Bing
| and Yahoo, though investors worried that
| the licensing deals would be âgiving away
| the farm.â Williams said his team was
| swayed by the idea that putting the Twitter
| firehose in front of those engineering
| teams and their millions of users would
| âmaximize value for end users.â
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http://gigaom.com/2010/04/14/evan-williams-twitter-is-the-ecosystem/
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