Comments on: Jay’s lessons on news “crowdsourcing” http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/16/jays-lessons-on-news-crowdsourcing/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:15:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Dennis McDonald http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/16/jays-lessons-on-news-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-335328 Dennis McDonald Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:00:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/16/jays-lessons-on-news-crowdsourcing/#comment-335328 here's a commentary: http://www.socialmediatoday.com/blog/DennisMcDonald here’s a commentary:

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/blog/DennisMcDonald

]]> By: Dennis McDonald http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/16/jays-lessons-on-news-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-335285 Dennis McDonald Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:31:45 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/16/jays-lessons-on-news-crowdsourcing/#comment-335285 This is really interesting and seems to point out that such efforts need to be managed. Is anyone surprised at that? It also reminds me of what happens whenever a volunteer effort among geographically distributed individuals needs to be coordinated. Usually a small core of individuals emerges who take it upon themselves to shoulder the burden of leadership and coordination. With today's systems, though, the numbers of people and decisions can be increased by orders of magntude, and this increases the likleihood of people veering off in the wrong direction; this in turn increases the need for oversight and management. This is really interesting and seems to point out that such efforts need to be managed. Is anyone surprised at that? It also reminds me of what happens whenever a volunteer effort among geographically distributed individuals needs to be coordinated. Usually a small core of individuals emerges who take it upon themselves to shoulder the burden of leadership and coordination. With today’s systems, though, the numbers of people and decisions can be increased by orders of magntude, and this increases the likleihood of people veering off in the wrong direction; this in turn increases the need for oversight and management.

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