Now 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 ReadingWe’ve spent some time here encouraging folks to move away from a generalized approach to content and toward niche content.
Jeff Jarvis just wrote a post about the struggles Time Magazine is having with its generalized content approach. Here’s a key snippet:
“I think that general-interest magazines may well be fated to fade away....
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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