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The Downside of Crowdsourcing
March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Re the LC Flickr’d Lincoln portrait linked from a Delicious post — shows the reasons I’m skeptical of crowdsourcing. Lots of pointless comments. We don’t care what random Flickr users think of Lincoln, his politics, his looks. LC is posting images hoping to get useful info, but they’ll have to sort out what’s useful (if anything) from the blather. The idea is to save LC the labor of tagging those images — but they trade that for the labor of sorting through the crap.
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