With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who’s best-suited to determine what’s best, curators or the crowd? People have their religion about one or the other, however this panel will focus on the overlap, the grey areas and how curating and crowd-sourcing enrich each other.
Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman Projects / 20x200 Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City Nion McEvoy, Chronicle Books Dustin Hostetler, skinnyCorp Gina Trapani, Lifehacker.com
Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, and I talked about the phenomenon of using crowds to do work. Hear about Jimmy Wales and the founding of Wikipedia, Procter & Gamble using crowds for innovation, and the British Crown — one of the first examples of crowdsourcing. http://800ceoread.com/podcasts/ 33:28 9/4/08
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Over 5,100 teams of scientists and engineers worked for almost three years to find a solution to the $1,000,000 Netflix Prize. How did the top two teams meet the challenge? Why did so many teams fail? A member of the leading team shares the inside story on crowdsourcing technical challenges.
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With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who’s best-suited to determine what’s best, curators or the crowd? People have their religion about one or the other, however this panel will focus on the overlap, the grey areas and how curating and crowd-sourcing enrich each other.
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