Comments on: Crowd sourcing: Has it failed? http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2008/05/14/crowd-sourcing-has-it-failed/ A blog by a Brit about Web 2.0 . Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:20:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jason Guthrie http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2008/05/14/crowd-sourcing-has-it-failed/#comment-284069 Jason Guthrie Wed, 14 May 2008 21:21:30 +0000 http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2008/05/14/crowd-sourcing-has-it-failed/#comment-284069 I like the idea of crowd sourcing. I would even visit Cambrian House whenever I could to browse the new ideas. I think the difference between Cambrian House and "working" crowdsourcing projects like Wikipedia is focus. In the example of Wikipedia, all the users are focused on one idea. Their efforts and thoughts are focused. I think Cambrian House would have been more effective if everyone would have voted on one or two ideas at a time and then focused on carrying those two ideas out.. documenting the process along the way. I hope that crowd sourcing continues on... I like the idea of crowd sourcing. I would even visit Cambrian House whenever I could to browse the new ideas.

I think the difference between Cambrian House and “working” crowdsourcing projects like Wikipedia is focus. In the example of Wikipedia, all the users are focused on one idea. Their efforts and thoughts are focused. I think Cambrian House would have been more effective if everyone would have voted on one or two ideas at a time and then focused on carrying those two ideas out.. documenting the process along the way.

I hope that crowd sourcing continues on…

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