Comments on: Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/17/jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: [USA] Il crowdsourcing secondo Ethan Zuckerman « Strelnik http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/17/jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1831246 [USA] Il crowdsourcing secondo Ethan Zuckerman « Strelnik Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:16:48 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-1831246 [...] mentre i profitti sono solo la ciliegina sulla torta. Homo economicus vs zoon politikon once again?[post originale (in inglese) | via Internazionale [...] [...] mentre i profitti sono solo la ciliegina sulla torta. Homo economicus vs zoon politikon once again?[post originale (in inglese) | via Internazionale [...]

]]> By: Costruire insieme una comunità — Internazionale http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/17/jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1562496 Costruire insieme una comunità — Internazionale Mon, 18 May 2009 09:50:47 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-1562496 [...] ETHAN ZUCKERMAN lavora al Berkman center for internet and society. Nel 2004 ha fondato il sito Global Voices insieme a Rebecca MacKinnon. Questo articolo è uscito sul suo blog con il titolo Jeff Howe on crowdsourcing. [...] [...] ETHAN ZUCKERMAN lavora al Berkman center for internet and society. Nel 2004 ha fondato il sito Global Voices insieme a Rebecca MacKinnon. Questo articolo è uscito sul suo blog con il titolo Jeff Howe on crowdsourcing. [...]

]]> By: Nathan Ketsdever http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/17/jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1507080 Nathan Ketsdever Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:43:59 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-1507080 Fantastic job Ethan. I also liked his discussion of the example of the Extraordinaries to crowd source work for nonprofits via mobile and the spec. design debate about low cost design crowd sourcing. Fantastic job Ethan. I also liked his discussion of the example of the Extraordinaries to crowd source work for nonprofits via mobile and the spec. design debate about low cost design crowd sourcing.

]]> By: Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing | EcoSilly http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/17/jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1473885 Jeff Howe on Crowdsourcing | EcoSilly Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:12:23 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-1473885 [...] This piece originally appeared on Ethan Zuckerman’s personal blog, My Heart’s In Accra [...] [...] This piece originally appeared on Ethan Zuckerman’s personal blog, My Heart’s In Accra [...]

]]> By: Jeff Howe http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/17/jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1472066 Jeff Howe Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:39:46 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-1472066 Thanks for the write up, Ethan. A few minor quibbles: 1) It's probably worth noting that Bruce decided to start charging a quarter to license iStock images only in order to pay his hosting costs. While very much an ambitious entrepreneur, Livingstone tells me iStock was very much a side project not intended to turn a profit. 2) Non sequitur: Is the raw food market really lucrative? Not fact checking you. Just amazed. 3) I'm not sure I'd say I stacked the deck, as the phrase conveys the willful exclusion of examples that contradict my arguments, and such was never my intention. In fact, at the time I was building the framework for the book, MT (and other forms of distributed labor that took place outside of community contexts) struck me as bush-league crowdsourcing. After a brief burst of interest after launching, MT had had a hard time finding companies to post HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks—the modular units of the MT system), and Turkers to perform them. When it became clear that MT was slowly, quietly gaining traction I decided to include it, but precisely because it didn't fit into the taxonomy of crowdsourcing I'd created (1-Creative/generative crowdsourcing; 2-Knowledge networks; 3-Collaborative filters; 4-Crowdfunding) I couldn't figure out where to put it. In the end I gave up and submitted my imperfect manuscript. What's lovely about living in the age of the blog is that one is constantly able to update the book, and I really have to thank you for your comment after my talk (Afterward Ethan suggested that by ignoring MT and its ilk I was focusing on the tail and ignorning the dog, so to speak). I'm not sure that I agree with your quantitative assumption—that such crowdsourcing applications will outnumber community production examples by 1000 (or even 100) to one. But I agree that distributed labor models are here to stay and will surely experience considerable growth, especially in a downturn. And that wasn't something I was giving a lot of thought to previous to today. A great provocation for thought/research/article, etc. Thanks! Thanks for the write up, Ethan. A few minor quibbles:
1) It’s probably worth noting that Bruce decided to start charging a quarter to license iStock images only in order to pay his hosting costs. While very much an ambitious entrepreneur, Livingstone tells me iStock was very much a side project not intended to turn a profit.
2) Non sequitur: Is the raw food market really lucrative? Not fact checking you. Just amazed.
3) I’m not sure I’d say I stacked the deck, as the phrase conveys the willful exclusion of examples that contradict my arguments, and such was never my intention. In fact, at the time I was building the framework for the book, MT (and other forms of distributed labor that took place outside of community contexts) struck me as bush-league crowdsourcing. After a brief burst of interest after launching, MT had had a hard time finding companies to post HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks—the modular units of the MT system), and Turkers to perform them. When it became clear that MT was slowly, quietly gaining traction I decided to include it, but precisely because it didn’t fit into the taxonomy of crowdsourcing I’d created (1-Creative/generative crowdsourcing; 2-Knowledge networks; 3-Collaborative filters; 4-Crowdfunding) I couldn’t figure out where to put it. In the end I gave up and submitted my imperfect manuscript.

What’s lovely about living in the age of the blog is that one is constantly able to update the book, and I really have to thank you for your comment after my talk (Afterward Ethan suggested that by ignoring MT and its ilk I was focusing on the tail and ignorning the dog, so to speak). I’m not sure that I agree with your quantitative assumption—that such crowdsourcing applications will outnumber community production examples by 1000 (or even 100) to one. But I agree that distributed labor models are here to stay and will surely experience considerable growth, especially in a downturn. And that wasn’t something I was giving a lot of thought to previous to today. A great provocation for thought/research/article, etc. Thanks!

]]> By: Jayne Cravens http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/17/jeff-howe-on-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-1471511 Jayne Cravens Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:46:48 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2816#comment-1471511 Best overview of "crowd-sourcing" (a term I loathe) that I've read to date. Thanks so much for including the reality checks, instead of just being breathless with enthusiasm for the new jargon (as other bloggers are). Best overview of “crowd-sourcing” (a term I loathe) that I’ve read to date. Thanks so much for including the reality checks, instead of just being breathless with enthusiasm for the new jargon (as other bloggers are).

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