Laptopdance: The crowdsourcing highlights

November 10th, 2008 by Leo Ryan · 2 Comments

Crowdsourcing the favorite crowdsourcing sites feels a little bit like looking at my own eyeball - or a Mandelbrot set. Anyway…we had a lot of fun looking at the different ways that culture is crowdsourced;
Top favorite was Sellaband; the site that enables bands to upload files and for the crowd to listen and then back [...]

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We Think: We are a Wise Crowd

March 27th, 2008 by Ben · 1 Comment

I had the pleasure of hearing Charles Leadbeater speak about the basis of his new book, We Think: The Power of Mass Creativity, at the British Library last night. Now, the title of the event was “We Think: Will the Web be Good for Us?” which has a foreboding ring to it, doesn’t it?
Charles suggested [...]

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