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Crowd Sourcing

• "For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals." ~Michael Shermer
  
  
• "The amount of knowledge and talent dispersed among the human race has always outstripped our capacity to harness it. Crowdsourcing corrects that – but in doing so, it also unleashes the forces of creative destruction." ~Jeff Howe, Wired
  
  
• "There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true." ~Robert Wilensky
  
  

Wikipedia, Wikileaks, Wikimedia Commons, crowd funding, flash mob, crop mob
peer-to-peer file sharing; BitTorrent [HSW]

Mechanical Turk; Sunlight Foundation; sunlightcam.com; Poligraft
MT: Help shine a light: A new website lets anyone report campaign ads and who pays for them
DARPA Crowdsources Combat Vehicle Design
BP oil cleanup
Could “crowd-sourcing” help resource-starved SEC detect fraud?
The Public Square Goes Mobile (Give a Minute; volunteerism)
Informational Crowdsourcing Takes Off: To find the best answers, digital services are turning to actual humans
I Found Your Camera; Open parking spot; Information Age Prayer
Peer-to-Peer Renting
iStock growing pains show crowdsourcing challenge

Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar
Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing
MapRejuice Is SETI@Home on Steroids
Stanford and UC Berkeley create massively collaborative math
A claimed proof that P≠NP spurs a massive collaborative research effort
LH: Stop Repeating Yourself: Set Up a Workplace Wiki
LH: Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren't Google Wave)
HSW: How does SETI home work?

Wikipedia

• "Wikipedia's promise is nothing less than the liberation of human knowledge -- both by incorporating all of it through the collaborative process, and by freely sharing it with everybody who has access to the internet. This is a radically popular idea." ~The Economist, 2006
  
  
• "Anonymous leaking is an ancient art and many websites publish documents from sources they cannot identify. What Wikileaks has done is to professionalise the operation. They have created a standard procedure for receiving, processing and publishing leaks." ~Steven Aftergood
  
  

Please Read: A Personal Appeal TO Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales (funding)
Something's Keeping Wikipedia from Becoming a Platform (for other apps, services)
Jimmy Wales makes Wikia stickier with a social revamp
For All Its Flaws, Wikipedia is the Way Information Works Now (10 yr. anniv)
Wikipedia turns 10 with plans to diversify
Jesus of Wikipedia: using Christ's page as a guide to the online encyclopedia's ten-year history.
Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List (< 15% female)
In Rancorous Times, Can Wikipedia Show Us How to All Get Along?
Wikipedia, if it were run by academic experts, would look like this
Wikipedia Introduces Article Feedback Tool
The Story Behind a Wikipedia Entry (Iraq War)
Forking is a Feature
HSW: How the Wikipedia Scanner Works

Cloud Computing, cloud storage

• "Three things are certain:
  Death, taxes, and lost data.
  Guess which has occurred." ~David Dixon, Haiku error message winner
  
  

HSW: cloud computing, office suites (Google Docs [HSW]; Windows Live),
reminders [HSW], file hosting; [HSW: cloud storage] (Dropbox); backup; yousendit.com; SurveyMonkey (web survey)

Storing Your Files Inside the Cloud (Carbonite; Mozy; Backblaze; CrashPlan)
The Cloud: Battle of the Tech Titans (Amazon, Google, Microsoft vs. IBM, HP)
Is your data safe in the 'cloud'? (gmail outage)
Pentagon Looks to Militarize the Cloud
How the Cloud Can Help Carriers Sell Content
Porn studio could teach Apple, Google about cloud
White House Issues Federal Cloud Strategy
White House Reveals Plans For ExpertNet Wiki
Why I’m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud
The “Human Cloud” and the Future of Work
Convicted Botnet Author Describes Next Targets (cloud computing)
Adobe intros cloud-based file sharing, PDF creation tools
For Google, the Browser Does It All
Spoon virtualization lets you run desktop apps anywhere with no installs (via browser)
The World Is Full of Interesting Things (Google slideshow)
Microsoft to offer hosted, subscription versions of Office
Evernote Raises $20M In Bid To Become A “Global Platform For Human Memory”
Infographic: Virtualization & State of Cloud Computing
Microsoft releases updated Windows Live apps
IBM Survey Says Mobile Apps Will Dominate Enterprise
Apple shows continued interest in expanded cloud data syncing
Google Apps gains extra layer of security with two-step verification
Cloud vendors seek better legal protections for online data
Cloud Computing Hits Snag in Europe
LH: How to Organize Your Life with Springpad
LH: Teambox is an Open Source, Social Network-Influenced Online Project Management App
HSW: 10 Useful Google Tools
HSW: How the Google File System Works
LH: Why You Should Use Google Apps with a Personal Domain Instead of Your Gmail Account
LH: Top 10 Google Settings You Should Know About
LH: Top 10 Clever Uses for the Cloud

[updated: 10-Mar-2011] [.pdf]