The Dark Side of Internet Discourse – Wikinomics,Sep 2009
Anand Giridharadas observes, “Because it is so easy to filter one’s reading online, extreme views dominate the discussion. Moderates are underrepresented, so citizens seeking better health care may seem less numerous than poker fans. The Internet’s image of openness and equality belies its inequities of race, geography and age.”
Audit by mob – Crowdsourcing UK Parliaments MP allowance review – Wikinomics, Jun 2009
To help fill the void of an official feedback channel, a number of news outlets have been only too happy to step in, providing real-time updates of emerging citizen concerns and even a “great MP expense hunt” hosted by The Guardian. At time of post publication, The Guardian‘s crowdsourcing experiment had presented 457,153 pages of documents, of which 293,191 were unreviewed.
Inside IDEO – Konigi, May 2009
IDEO’s unique brand of brainstorming is called ”Deep Dive,” a sort of total immersion into the problem at hand. It’s one company’s secret weapon for innovation. (videos no longer available – ABC pulled from YouTube)
“Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the plans of the lone genius.” This was a reaction to the question about why a team vote on brainstorming trumps a boss’s opinion.
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