MIT Technology Review: Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, talks about why it's good that the site is out of control. [>>]
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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Worth Reading: "The New Principles of a Swarm Business"
In the spring issue of MIT Sloan Management Review Peter A. Gloor and Scott M. Cooper have published an exciting article on Swarm Business [pdf][>>]:
"As companies like BMW, IBM, Novartis and others are discovering, swarm businesses require a completely new corporate mindset. Specifically, to reap the benefits of swarm innovation, companies must (1) gain power by giving it away, (2) share with the swarm and (3) concentrate on the swarm, not on making money. Although these principles differ from the traditional ways of doing business in a number of fundamental ways, they are crucial for companies to succeed in this emerging era of increased collaboration among innovators both inside and outside the organization."
Wired News republishes 12 of the best Assignment Zero Stories
This week Wired News republishes a selection of Assignment Zero stories on the topic of crowdsourcing. All in all, Assignment Zero produced about 80 stories, essays and interviews about crowdsourcing. Wired News reprints 12 of the best [>>]:
- Open-Source Journalism: It's a Lot Tougher Than You Think
- Creative Crowdwriting: The Open Book
- Stock Waves: Citizen Photo Journalists Are Changing the Rules
- (Q&A) Your Assignment: Art
- Design Within Reach: Architecture for Humanity Builds the Future of Housing
- (Q&A) The Experts at the Periphery
- News the Users Can Use
- (Q&A) Tricksters
- Put 40 Strangers in a Virtual Room to Talk About Religion
- (Q&A) Crowdsourcing Is a Word, and We'll See What It Means
- (Q&A) The Law of Large Numbers and That Eureka Moment
- (Q&A) Maybe the Fans Are Smarter than the Coach
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