Comments on: Crowdsourcing: Designed For a Specific Task http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/2009/08/crowdsourcing-designed-for-a-specific-task/ Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:48:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: benjaminjtaylor http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/2009/08/crowdsourcing-designed-for-a-specific-task/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 benjaminjtaylor Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:40:06 +0000 http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/?p=2609#comment-1877 <a href="http://Galaxyzoo.org" rel="nofollow">Galaxyzoo.org</a> is great, it's the right market too with impassioned professionals and hobbyists alike. If interested, there's a good article on Good Blogs, "Andrew Shapiro on the (Environmental) Value of Sharing" <a href="http://www.good.is/post/andrew-shapiro-on-the-environmental-value-of-sharing/" rel="nofollow">http://www.good.is/post/andrew-shapiro-on-the-e...</a> also a good example of crowdfunding - Donors Choose <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.donorschoose.org/</a><br><br>I'll be sure to watch the BBC documentary, thanks for sharing. Galaxyzoo.org is great, it's the right market too with impassioned professionals and hobbyists alike. If interested, there's a good article on Good Blogs, “Andrew Shapiro on the (Environmental) Value of Sharing” http://www.good.is/post/andrew-shapiro-on-the-e... also a good example of crowdfunding – Donors Choose http://www.donorschoose.org/

I'll be sure to watch the BBC documentary, thanks for sharing.

]]> By: benjaminjtaylor http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/2009/08/crowdsourcing-designed-for-a-specific-task/comment-page-1/#comment-36 benjaminjtaylor Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:40:06 +0000 http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/?p=2609#comment-36 <a href="http://Galaxyzoo.org" rel="nofollow">Galaxyzoo.org</a> is great, it's the right market too with impassioned professionals and hobbyists alike. If interested, there's a good article on Good Blogs, "Andrew Shapiro on the (Environmental) Value of Sharing" <a href="http://www.good.is/post/andrew-shapiro-on-the-environmental-value-of-sharing/" rel="nofollow">http://www.good.is/post/andrew-shapiro-on-the-e...</a> also a good example of crowdfunding - Donors Choose <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.donorschoose.org/</a><br><br>I'll be sure to watch the BBC documentary, thanks for sharing. Galaxyzoo.org is great, it's the right market too with impassioned professionals and hobbyists alike. If interested, there's a good article on Good Blogs, “Andrew Shapiro on the (Environmental) Value of Sharing” http://www.good.is/post/andrew-shapiro-on-the-e... also a good example of crowdfunding – Donors Choose http://www.donorschoose.org/

I'll be sure to watch the BBC documentary, thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Digital Revolution http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/2009/08/crowdsourcing-designed-for-a-specific-task/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Digital Revolution Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:11:07 +0000 http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/?p=2609#comment-34 Another crowdsourcing success story is <a href="http://www.galaxyzoo.org/" rel="nofollow">Galaxyzoo.org</a> which released images of 250K galaxies to the public with the hope of the engaged crowd classifying them as spiral, smooth etc. to help with mapping space. The response was immense, cutting the time estimated to classify all of the galaxies to a fraction of that otherwise predicted.<br><br>I hope that you'll be listing the BBC's open source, crowdsourced documentary about the web <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution/" rel="nofollow">Digital Revolution</a> as a major success in similar posts in 2010: illustrating the way the web and its communities helped to shape the story told by the BBC. As you know, that's an ongoing project that's crowdsourcing as we speak. Obviously the eventual TV programme has ratings to measure, but from a multiplatform perspective, we very much consider our KPI to be demonstrable input from the web. Our successful engagement with the web to change and shape the story told by the programme - that we were genuinely open and that openness created community-built content to tell a better, truer story - is the major ambition of our project.<br><br>It's not mapping the universe or anything, but, you know... We're trying :) Another crowdsourcing success story is Galaxyzoo.org which released images of 250K galaxies to the public with the hope of the engaged crowd classifying them as spiral, smooth etc. to help with mapping space. The response was immense, cutting the time estimated to classify all of the galaxies to a fraction of that otherwise predicted.

I hope that you'll be listing the BBC's open source, crowdsourced documentary about the web Digital Revolution as a major success in similar posts in 2010: illustrating the way the web and its communities helped to shape the story told by the BBC. As you know, that's an ongoing project that's crowdsourcing as we speak. Obviously the eventual TV programme has ratings to measure, but from a multiplatform perspective, we very much consider our KPI to be demonstrable input from the web. Our successful engagement with the web to change and shape the story told by the programme – that we were genuinely open and that openness created community-built content to tell a better, truer story – is the major ambition of our project.

It's not mapping the universe or anything, but, you know… We're trying :)

]]> By: chokha http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/2009/08/crowdsourcing-designed-for-a-specific-task/comment-page-1/#comment-895 chokha Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:53:03 +0000 http://www.benjaminjtaylor.com/?p=2609#comment-895 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">Crowdsourcing: Designed For a Specific Task http://bit.ly/4eMAbx</span></span> Crowdsourcing: Designed For a Specific Task http://bit.ly/4eMAbx

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