I had no idea what Crowdsourcing was, neither does spell check. Heres the Wikipedia.com definition
neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, refine an algorithm or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science).
Ok so what newspapers are doing now is taking a story and spreading it out to more people. I don't get why they can't just have one person right it. I understand if it is the cure for Cancer where a collective group of people might need to work on something but thats not what they are doing. They are going to all put bits of information into a story. I see the pros as someone might have an additional information on the subject but I feel if someone is specialized on it they already have enough sufficient information.
I can see this just as a slower process and words getting jumbled and information to be all over the place. What do I know I don't make millions of dollars.
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Great video! HAHAHA
I agree. I think that one professional should stick to their job. I wouldn't be any help in creating a news story and i doubt a lot of people have the capabilities to do so as well.
Why not leave this to people who actually do it?
Yeah, I don't really care enough to need all this extra information. I'd just kind of like a couple of facts and maybe a dash of background information...so i don't sound completely dumb when i refernce the story. You're right, if it is something i'm really interested in chances are i either know enough about it to make extra facts unnessicary or i can go do more research on my own thankyouverymuch.
I think that a lot of it just marketing. They want to involve everyone in order to look "inventive" or something like that. If that's the case, then it doesn't seem to be working.
thanks for making me laugh with that video.. i know we did a lot of killing on halo, but that last death by bus was pretty good, would that be considered a beat down?
now to your post.. i agree that an individual should be able to write their own story, they did go to college for that.. i kind of related it to when you have a group paper to do and you dont meet but instead everyone does a part and you just mash it together, the paper comes out fine but it could be better.. this is what newspapers seem to be doing, mashing stories together so they can fill up space
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