Fellow blogger Malcolm Coles is conducting a medical experiment, but you’re more likely to see the results in New Media Age than The Lancet. Following death this week of a teenage girl moments after she had been immunized against cervical…
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Adebayor, Arsenal And The Limits Of Crowdsourcing
When James Surowiecki coined the phrase ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’ for his 2004 book, it was a play on a 19th century work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay. Well this weekend the madness returned, and…
How The Guardian’s Crowdsourcing Experiment Ran Out Of Steam
This morning, news of a crowdsourcing success. This afternoon, a high-profile example seemingly a little stuck in the mud. Six weeks ago the Guardian invited its readers to help it trawl through hundreds of thousands of expense claim documents released (in…
Is That The Sound Of The Crowd? Just Maybe.
There’s a good chance you are not one of the Birmingham Post’s 12,700 daily readers and therefore may have missed something of a landmark event in crowdsouring. Help Me Investigate, the public journalism project designed to kick-start investigative reporting with public involvement at its…
Crowdsourcing 1920s-Style
Much maligned it may be by Malcolm Gladwell and others. Faultless it is not. But Chris Anderson’s follow-up to The Long Tail is a great read, full of insight and anecdote, and - for the large part - convincing. I also think…
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and BBC: Lessons in Crowdsourcing
I began the week reflecting on the BBC’s initiative asking radio listeners to come up with pain-free ways the NHS could save money. The week ends with an army of Guardian readers sorting and classifying 700,000+ MPs’ expenses documents. Two examples of old…
BBC Goes Crowdsourcing To Save The NHS
This morning the Today programme devoted two in-show trails to its how-to-cut-NHS-spending-without-feeling-the-pain feature. It’s a nice conceit – the politicians are reluctant to talk about cuts in general terms and any suggestion that the NHS in particular will suffer is political suicide. So…
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