Daily Round Up: March 18, 2007

I asked Alan to exclude Assignment Zero posts from his daily round up for the simple reason that right now commentary on AZ overshadows other topics concerning crowdsourcing. He courageously took on the task. Here's what he found:

This very interesting LA Times piece about Josh Marshall, who owns and runs TPM Media, Talking Points Memo blog, sister site TPM Muckraker and how they blew open the Bush administration's firing a group of U.S. attorneys. This is a wonderful background piece, especially juxtaposed against the past few days' activity at Assignment Zero.

The Economist's crowdsourcing experiment, Project Red Stripe has taken an interesting direction by front-paging ideas that "are not" being considered for development!

NowPublic catches a Flickr—Infocult broods.

Companies are increasingly monetizing all those bits of data we all generate merely by being digital citizens. Now a bunch of sites are questioning the ethics of such a practice. Are you in control of your attention data? Do you deserve a piece of the action? Will only people who have something valuable to say make the effort to send a message to you? Attention Trust, Agloco and Boxbe all put some terms to the debate.

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch shares a good introduction to Wikiseek, a community-edited beta search engine.

Comments

[randy.stewart]

Jeff-

Thanks for the mention on the blog. We're all about putting the user back in the driver's seat of their attention and for most, the nerve center of their attention, is their inbox.

We think of Boxbe as a new kind marketplace. What you trade through Boxbe is access to your self. For your work and personal email, you can let access be free. For others, we help you set a price.

Please come over and check it out. We're rolling out Gmail integration this week (which I'll announce on our blog later this week).

Cheers,
Randy Stewart
Boxbe Product Manager
randy@boxbe.com
http://blog.boxbe.com