{"id":903,"date":"2006-06-07T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/06\/here_comes_crowdsourcing\/"},"modified":"2006-06-07T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T15:51:52","slug":"here_comes_crowdsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/here_comes_crowdsourcing.php","title":{"rendered":"Here comes &#8221;crowdsourcing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Wired<\/i> magazine has a piece on yet another trendy word construction made possible by the on-line world. <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.06\/crowds.html?pg=1&#038;topic=crowds&#038;topic_set=\">Crowdsourcing<\/a> includes any effort by a commercial enterprise to leverage the scattered talents of large groups of individuals on the web. Many firms are finding the technique extraordinarily powerful in building stock photo archives, writing or testing bits of computer code, handling evaluative tasks, or even solving complex problems in chemistry or science. Says the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nTechnological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. Hobbyists, part-timers, and dabblers suddenly have a market for their efforts, as smart companies in industries as disparate as pharmaceuticals and television discover ways to tap the latent talent of the crowd. The labor isn&#8217;t always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees. It&#8217;s not outsourcing; it&#8217;s crowdsourcing.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trend is one more indication of the growing boundary blur between professionals and amateurs &#8212; covered before in this weblog as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/005569.php\">ProAm revolution<\/a>. In the arts, we&#8217;ve built a solid and sophisticated infrastructure around professional endeavor. The world around us &#8212; and the artists among us &#8212; are realizing that &#8221;professional&#8221; isn&#8217;t always what they want, or what they need to make or experience exceptional work.<\/p>\n<p>Also be sure to see <i>Wired<\/i>&#8216;s suggestions for the <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.06\/labor.html\">five rules of the crowdsourcing labor pool<\/a>. Most entertaining is number 4: &#8221;The crowd produces mostly crap.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired magazine has a piece on yet another trendy word construction made possible by the on-line world. Crowdsourcing includes any effort by a commercial enterprise to leverage the scattered talents of large groups of individuals on the web. Many firms are finding the technique extraordinarily powerful in building stock photo archives, writing or testing bits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}