Amy Gahran’s blog pointed me to this wonderful article in Forbes about Crowdsourcing and to be honest there is not much to add to it but only to agree with Dan Woods: Crowds don't innovate--individuals do.
And as I am a firm believer of grassroot initiative and strong supporter of civic movements it makes me sad to see how very often the same crowdsourcing tools are used to render useless the good initiatives by the people as described by Pete Peterson in Techpresident.
The illusion of crowdsourcing in my opinion serves two main coals: it renders a personalized outcome of somebody’s work or thought impersonal leaving also the praise or critics for it impersonal and second it leaves the ownership of the outcome open to be claimed by the crowdsourcing master or a group with enough (legal, PR) power to claim it.
And as I am a firm believer of grassroot initiative and strong supporter of civic movements it makes me sad to see how very often the same crowdsourcing tools are used to render useless the good initiatives by the people as described by Pete Peterson in Techpresident.
The illusion of crowdsourcing in my opinion serves two main coals: it renders a personalized outcome of somebody’s work or thought impersonal leaving also the praise or critics for it impersonal and second it leaves the ownership of the outcome open to be claimed by the crowdsourcing master or a group with enough (legal, PR) power to claim it.
However companies love it or as Businessweek put it: Crowdsourcing - Milk the masses for inspiration
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