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article Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeLast Tuesday, Saturday Night Live announced they'll be assigning one day a month for fans to suggest hosts and musical guests for the show via their social networking forums. Because humans...
article Distributed KnowledgeAfter noticing that fans,without being asked,have been flooding the NBC show’s Facebook page and creating Twitter-based campaigns suggesting hosts and musicians,the show has decided to make it...
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While the rioting and looting that convulsed parts of London last weekend spread to other parts of the UK on Monday, The Guardian newspaper enlisted help from the crowd to catalogue and portray to the destruction caused by uncontrolled groups of youths.
“What have you told us so far about the events over the weekend?” asked the newspaper to its readers.
What started as a gathering of around 200 protesters demanding answers over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by the police on Thursday August 4th, culminated in a full-scale riot that spread across north-London suburbs and subsequently to other parts of the country, including the UK’s second largest city, Manchester.
“On Sunday, we began asking Guardian readers what they'd seen in Tottenham on Saturday night, and why they thought the vigil held for Mark Duggan escalated into rioting and looting”, wrote James Ball, a data journalist working for the Guardian investigations team. “This work had been used to complement and feed into work carried out by our reporters on the ground”.
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document Distributed KnowledgeIf you are in a good position to see the eclipse, you can participate in another fun digital project designed to measure the distance to the moon. Participants are asked to submit photographs to...
document Crowd CreativityThe fan videos interspersed throughout the ninety-second spot were collected by Chrystie Street casting agency Zan Ludlum over a 24-hour period a couple weeks ago. Watch this video and see if your...
article Distributed KnowledgeSNL is crowd-sourcing for hosts and musical guests. According to a post on the show's Backstage Blog, staffers will devote one day out of every month to sift through fan suggestions that come...