For months I've been alluding to some big developments for both crowdsourcing the blog and crowdsourcing the model. Today all is revealed.
What's that on top of your blog? Crowdsourcing.com is now officially part of the Wired.com blog network. This won't obviously affect the reader experience (unless you're offended by the Wired house ad that's suddenly appeared above my banner), but it should make it more fun. For one, it will bring more readers to the blog and thus introduce more voices to our already lively comments section. Second, it should create some interesting cross-pollination with the other excellent Wired blogs in the network. From Bruce Sterling's inimitable commentary on Beyond the Beyond to our ever-whimsical, over-informed music blog, the Listening Post, Wired.com is now hosting some of the best blogs in the biz. I consider it high praise to be in their company.
What the Hell is Assignment Zero? Today Wired and Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.Net launched an ambitious research project that will use crowdsourcing to research, report and write about, well, crowdsourcing, in all its manifestations. It's called Assignment Zero, so named because we consider it ground zero for a new, hyrbid model of open source-slash-citizen media that we're calling Pro-Am journalism. The idea is to hook a team of professional editors and writers up with what we hope will be a vast team of talented, enthusiastic amateurs. Our goal is to bring the best of both worlds—the professional standards and respect for factual accuracy of the MSM on one hand; the infinite reservoir of knowledge and reporting power of the crowd—to bear.
Obviously I'm very excited about this. It will naturally—full disclosure—inform the book I'm writing. More than that, I think it's going to reveal some important aspects of crowdsourcing, from its potential to liberate creative potential to its inherent danger to exploit the collective. But rather than explain every detail of what we're doing, let me point you to the explainer Wired.com editor Evan Hansen and I wrote for the launch, and Jay Rosen's excellent, informative essay on the project, which will tell you all you need to know.
The engagement was to long, the marriage is now over and all the offspring are going to be healthy! Congratulations on this groundbreaking partnership! Alan.
Posted by: alan | March 14, 2007 at 04:18 PM
Jeff: You rock.
Cheers...
JR
Posted by: Jay Rosen | March 14, 2007 at 06:12 PM
Hey there shooter --
An FYI: the link in your BIO (http://zero.newassignment.net/user/jeff_howe) for your homepage, www.crowdsourcing.com, is missing the prefix so its treating it as a relative rather than absolute URL.
just tryin' to help a brotha out and make the linking system get ya some diaper money from that upcoming book of yours.
I think the newsvine / assignment zero concepts make up a great way for the average working stiff to get some creativity into their day. Personally, I think the world is a much more exciting place knowing that people of different backgrounds and perspectives are coming together for projects of this sort....BUT that may just be the PMP in me speaking up.
sign me up for some ninja sleuth journalism - i'm ready.
cheers ...
d
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