Yesterday a colleague asked me what crowdsourcing was. So I chattered on about pothole maps, and crowdsource maps, pertrol and CD prices. As I was talking I realised that on the surface a lot of the subject areas seemed pretty mundane. Not the kind of thing you would win a pulitzer for.
Later on in the [...]

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Given the recent issues the guardian seem to be experiencing with comments, perhaps they need to get Martin Belam in as a consultant to help them out.
Given how valuable his skills are, maybe he shouldn’t be giving away all the great stuff in his mega-series on dealing with comments, for free
While he is, go and [...]

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Corey Bergman at Lost Remote highlighted a Wall Street Journal piece about large portal sites looking to niche sites for talent.
“Big Internet companies such as MSN and Yahoo have small teams whose job it is to ‘discover’ these smaller sites before their competition does. They scan the Web, attend industry conferences and hobnob with start-ups [...]

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