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Some argue that Wikipedia, with its open, free, crowdsourced content, "did in" the EB. Tim Carmody over at Wired purports that Windows, not Wikipedia, caused EB's demise:...
The usefulness of such reference materials has been on the decline for years, especially since the advent of Wikipedia. Whatever flaws its open, crowd-sourced editorial model may invite, Wikipedia...
Britannica prided itself on the participation of high-profile contributors, such as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Leon Trotsky, Milton Friedman and Carl Sagan. That was before Jimmy Wales used...
Additional social media sharing functionality is "definitely in the plans for a future release," Barlow said. "We need to be in tune with how people are using it." In a nod to...
I was recently asked to give my assessment of the newly-released “#CROWDSOURCING Tweet”. The project is a clever collection of the best tweets about crowdsourcing. Everything from highly-academic observations to harsh scrutiny about the practice to historical citations of crowdsourcing’s beginnings. Written by two serial book authors who have utilized crowdsourcing before in their many endeavors, Kiruba Shankar and Mitchell Levy are the perfect pair to curate this discussion. Since my response to their request quickly turned into a rave review, I wanted to share some of the best bits I read with you all.
Any substantive discussion of collaborative knowledge in the 21st century should begin with Wikipedia. A holy grail of information on everything from Plato to Play-Doh, the site is undoubtedly the largest repository of knowledge in the world. Featuring over 20 million articles written solely by volunteers, with nearly four million in English, Wikipedia is the sixth largest site on the Internet, behind only Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and the Chinese language search engine Baidu. Incredibly, it is a non-profit, operating with just 95 staff members and 679 servers; the crowd both authors and supports the world’s most comprehensive encyclopedia.
The Open Source Software Community and the volunteers of Wikipedia show that in at least some knowledge domains, unstructured crowds of regular people produce results that are competitive with...
If you just need some info during the blackout, check out one of these fine online knowledge banks: 1) Encyclopedia Britannica, 2) Infoplease, 3) Citizendium 4) Download it all
Tapping into global talent at an affordable price has never been easier than with use of a crowdsourcing website! No longer is “outsourcing” relegated to major enterprises- now every start-up can...
In other words, the wisdom of the crowd can be harnessed to determine which variables to study, the UVM project shows -- and at the same time provide a pool of data by responding to the questions...
InfoArmy is building a service to provide profiles of companies that include information about management, competitors and estimates of financial information. They try to enlist the expertise and...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
