On 9/5/2010 8:17 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: > What is crowd sourcing? Define/discuss/debate, please.
Getting a large (ish) group to do "x". The implications are not just (your) labour saving, but most importantly, the notion of the wisdom of crowds comes into play. A couple of examples to illustrate, somewhat technical in nature: Vipul's razor [1], written by silklister and sometime list.host Vipul Ved Prakash. The same basic idea is used by the "this is spam" button in gmail and other such services. The rather well-known aphorism later dubbed "Linus' Law" [2]: ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.'' [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipul%27s_Razor [2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s04.html -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
