Andrew and I spent a couple of hours today at a panel discussion on “Trends in Political Blogging” hosted by Edelman and the Institute for Politics, Democacy and the Internet. Here are some semi-coherent thoughts from the event:
(1) Three representatives from Wal-Mart Watch (probably GWU student volunteers) were passing out flyers at the event about the whole Wal-Mart/Edelman fake blog fiasco from a few months back....
Continue ReadingNow that this year's Senate races are over, I wanted to take a quick look and see how our political bloggers fared in the election. It turns out that out of the 26 total campaign blogs, 13 were for winning candidates and 13 were for losing candidates. This factoid surprised me because I expected the Internet would play a more effectual role in this cycle's elections. ...
Continue ReadingPersonal 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:
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