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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Sunday, March 23, 2008
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