Personal Democracy is running a series this week on the role technology played in the 2006 elections and what role it will play in future elections. They asked a group of “technologists, politicos, bloggers, and journalists” to send in their take on the issue.
The best take I’ve seen so far (including my own) was from David Weinberger,...
Continue ReadingNewsassignment.net has a great list of nine ways citizen journalists can cover the election. The piece points to two sites that let users predict the results of the elections, “Midterm Madness” at The Washington Post and Predict06.
Interestingly, Predict06 goes so far as to aggregate the picks of all user to see if the crowd can pick races better than the pundits....
Continue ReadingCrowdsourcing has been all the rage in the tech community the last few months. The term was coined in a June 2006 Wired Magazine article and describes a circumstance where “volunteers and/or low-paid amateurs use their spare time to create content, solve problems or even do corporate R&D.”
Following are some notable examples companies using crowdsourcing:
So this is kind of weird.
There has been a big flap over at Techcrunch regarding how they select the hot start up companies they cover. Basically, Techcrunch wrote an article about a company called Maya’s Mom and did not cover one of its competitors, Mother’s Click. The folks at Mother’s Milk got angry and accused Techcrunch of writing about Maya’s Mom due solely to a personal relationship Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington has with the founder of the company....
Continue ReadingPaid Content has a tiny bit of scoop on Daylife , a news startup that will "soft launch" this coming Monday. What Daylife is exactly is clear as mud. Here's the generic description Paid Content offers up:
"The mission is to gather and organize news in ways that are most relevant to the user....
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