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Crowdsourcing Democracy in LA County
LBPOST.com
by Brian Addison | Long Beach News | 02.03.12 | 12:00pm | Attempting to understand the voting experience from myriad perspectives -- both macro and micro -- is becoming essential in our ever-shrinking world, particularly in the culturally diverse ...

How Crowdsourcing Will Reshape Journalism In The Middle East
PSFK
By Aziz Ali on February 3, 2012 18 Days in Egypt is an interactive documentary that looks at the recent revolution through thousands of perspectives. This richly diverse and fragmented content is powered by Groupstream, a platform concepted and built ...

Readers: Help Us Discover a Secret Donor
New York Times (blog)
This is where the Caucus is looking to throw open its reporting process and ask for some crowdsourcing help. The address listed for Glenbrook in campaign finance records is 3 Lagoon Drive, Suite 400, Redwood City, Calif. But a visit by a reporter to ...

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Crowdsourcing can generate valuable ideas for firms
TechJournal South
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have published a new study that refutes three key criticisms of crowdsourcing, a popular tool for new idea generation for firms as they seek to develop new products and services and to improve on their ...

Crowdsourcing Finance for Films - Maybe Local TV Programmes Should Follow
AllAfrica.com
By Sylvain Beletre, 2 February 2012 London — Africa has begun to join in the fun on crowdsourcing some of the funding for feature films. Crowdsourcing is getting lots of small contributions from individuals that taken together can make up a good chunk ...

Twentysomethings Use Super Bowl to Boost Careers
FINS
Like Dannon, more big consumer companies are pursuing a new approach to ad creation, tapping the so-called "wisdom of the crowds" through crowdsourcing, the technique of making an open call for help on a project via the Web. In the advertising business ...
[Crowd Leader: Neil Perry] Crowdsourcing and the Super Bowl – A Face in the CrowdDaily Crowdsource

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Waze uses crowdsourcing to keep drivers out of a jam (video)
CNET
by CNET News staff February 2, 2012 2:20 PM PST When it comes to mapping out the best driving route to your destination, sometimes the most direct route turns out to be the longest thanks to traffic congestion. Silicon Valley startup Waze has designed ...

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Another Victory for Foldit Gamers Shows the Power of Crowdsourcing
The Atlantic
Although there are no immediate applications for the particular Diels-Alder reaction that the enzyme catalyses and its activity is still relatively low, it clearly shows the power of crowdsourcing this kind of research. The scientist are now looking ...

techPresident
Does a Google-World Bank Deal On Crowdsourcing Ask Too Much of the Crowd?
techPresident
Ushahidi is an open-source platform for crowdsourcing, vetting and then mapping incident reports, and was a notable part of efforts to understand the scope of the Haiti earthquake in 2010. "I worry that Google will organize more crowdsourced mapping ...

Canadian newspaper uses crowdsourcing to register readers as potential sources
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (blog)
Poynter referred to it as "metacrowdsourcing,” or "applying crowdsourcing to sourcing itself rather than an individual reporting project." Crowdsourcing, or turning to a large group of citizens to perform a task that normally would be done by an ...

New CMU Study Shows How Firms Can Successfully Crowdsource High Potential New ...
Sacramento Bee
1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have published a new study that refutes three key criticisms of crowdsourcing, a popular tool for new idea generation for firms as they seek to develop new products and services and to ...

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Chaordix Partners with DAI to Implement USAID's Grand Challenges for Development
Sacramento Bee
"Crowdsourcing provides perhaps one of the best opportunities to tackle many of the world's most daunting development challenges," said Shelley Kuipers, CEO of Chaordix. "By being able to harness the collective wisdom, creativity, and collaboration of ...

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Duran Duran, Hungry for Innovation, Teams with SF Arts Nonprofit
The Bay Citizen (blog)
By Andy Wright |February 1, 2012 12:48 pm |In Visual Art Okay, pop quiz: what does a SF digital arts organization Grey Area Foundation for the Arts and '80s pop icons Duran Duran have in common? An interest in data visualization, it turns out.

New CMU Study Shows How Firms Can Successfully Crowdsource High Potential New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have published a new study that refutes three key criticisms of crowdsourcing, a popular tool for new idea generation for firms as they seek to develop new products and ...

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Group mulls hedge fund advertising, crowdsourcing capital
Ct Post
A veteran of the private equity and venture capital industry, Karter said the committee is considering a wave of recommendations that could provide new avenues for funding start ups, particularly in the area of crowdsourcing.

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Crowdsourcing science
The Manitoban
Peer review is the way things get done in science. Authors submit write-ups of their experiments to journals for publication. The journals send the articles to independent, unpaid referees who are experts in the field.

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Crowdsourcing experts team up to accelerate cardiac response
University of Southampton
Dr Rahwan said: “Our team will use crowdsourcing to encourage people to report the location of AEDs, to verify other reports, and to recruit new participants. If we win, the money will be split among the participants who helped find defibrillators and ...
Global contest will lead to help during heart attacks | Philadelphia Inquirer ...Philadelphia Inquirer
Med School scavenger hunt hopes to spread awareness about cardiac arrestThe Daily Pennsylvanian

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Leading Crowdsourcing Website Triples Customer Service Offices.
PR Web (press release)
DesignContest.com builds a network of quality customer service staff across the world allowing more efficient support for customers everywhere. Designcontest.com support staff meets and exceeds customer expectations by offering help that's promptly ...

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Transparency Life Sciences, LLC Launched as World's First Drug Development ...
MarketWatch (press release)
First, collaborative intelligence, also known as crowdsourcing, will be employed for the clinical protocol design phase, with the participation of medical experts, front-line physicians, patients and others, resulting in protocols that are focused on ...

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Crowdsourcing for the Art Crowd: GE Backs Documentary Film Challenge Focused ...
R & D Magazine
By General Electric Company The Global Innovation Barometer, which GE brought to Davos this week, confirmed that crowdsourcing and collaboration have become potent tools for stimulating new ideas. GE ought to know. Its $100 million healthymagination ...