More on “crowdsourcing”
Jeff Howe, the contributing writer for Wired who wrote a recent piece on Gannett moving to user-generated content (or “crowdsourcing”) which I wrote about here, takes a look at some of the responses to the piece — both positive and negative — in a new post on his blog. In another post, he descrbes how the process by which the Wired story evolved was very much like the way journalism itself is evolving:
To wit: A magazine article inspired a major policy shift at a corporation, which I discovered in doing some reporting for a blog entry a month ago. This led to a scoop I was able to take to my magazine’s Web site. I then used the blog to provide supplementary materials.
And those blog posts in turn, he says, allowed him to provide readers with a peek at the “factual framework” for the article, and also drew readers to the blog, which should produce more tips, ideas and contacts for further stories in both print and online version of Wired magazine.
In a more recent post, Howe describes how the Cincinnati Journal has set up a page where anyone can report problems they’ve had voting or getting registered to vote in the U.S. elections, complete with a Google map that shows the different locations and has popup explanations such as “Enquirer reporter and photographer threatened with arrest while trying to cover U.S. House Majority Leader John Boehner.” Pretty interesting stuff.
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