Comments on: Your Country Needs You! http://blog.microtask.com/2010/02/your-country-needs-you/ Future of distributed work and crowdsourcing Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:15:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: New media and the British election: Don’t stand too close to the bleeding edge http://blog.microtask.com/2010/02/your-country-needs-you/comment-page-1/#comment-112 New media and the British election: Don’t stand too close to the bleeding edge Mon, 10 May 2010 20:15:45 +0000 http://www.microtask.fi/?p=656#comment-112 [...] Your Country Needs You! [...] [...] Your Country Needs You! [...]

]]> By: Sami Sundell http://blog.microtask.com/2010/02/your-country-needs-you/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Sami Sundell Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:11:19 +0000 http://www.microtask.fi/?p=656#comment-36 The Finnish government is trying to find new ways to activate people all the time - <a href="http://www.otakantaa.fi" rel="nofollow">Otakantaa.fi</a> is one example, but it needs more publicity, more discussion, and more definite indication that voicing your opinion actually has some effect.<br><br>The noise aspect is definitely problematic, since it doesn't exactly encourage others to participate. On the other hand, that's also something which, to some extent, the general population could work on: one of the basic methods of crowdsourcing are those "I like it" buttons on various discussion forums, so people could also actively reduce the noise. Unfortunately that often also means hiding anything that doesn't conform to the mainstream ideas.<br><br>Regarding the Iranians and Twitter... Now that Google released Buzz, government in Iran was quick to react and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704140104575057621649270154.html" rel="nofollow">decided to ban Gmail</a> , so the social media definitely puts some people on edge. The Finnish government is trying to find new ways to activate people all the time – Otakantaa.fi is one example, but it needs more publicity, more discussion, and more definite indication that voicing your opinion actually has some effect.The noise aspect is definitely problematic, since it doesn't exactly encourage others to participate. On the other hand, that's also something which, to some extent, the general population could work on: one of the basic methods of crowdsourcing are those “I like it” buttons on various discussion forums, so people could also actively reduce the noise. Unfortunately that often also means hiding anything that doesn't conform to the mainstream ideas.Regarding the Iranians and Twitter… Now that Google released Buzz, government in Iran was quick to react and decided to ban Gmail , so the social media definitely puts some people on edge.

]]> By: Petri Pystynen http://blog.microtask.com/2010/02/your-country-needs-you/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Petri Pystynen Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:22:52 +0000 http://www.microtask.fi/?p=656#comment-35 It is true the emergent communication channels enable efficient methods of data collection to be used in decision making. Thus vast amount of noise decreases the benefits or at least makes the data elaboration process a challenge. And at the same time constant increasing of noise actually makes emergent channels become slowly as saturated as the trad. ones. Also according to recent study on cultural values in Finland by Puohiniemi M. it is clearly shown that especially in Finland the opinionated participatory culture along with creativity are diminishing. This arouses a question related to democracy... will the post modern communication strenghten it or will it erode. As one negative scenario, emergent channels along with the layered transparency will in the end purge the structures of democracy and lead into more divided, controlled and oligarchy systems. It is true the emergent communication channels enable efficient methods of data collection to be used in decision making. Thus vast amount of noise decreases the benefits or at least makes the data elaboration process a challenge. And at the same time constant increasing of noise actually makes emergent channels become slowly as saturated as the trad. ones. Also according to recent study on cultural values in Finland by Puohiniemi M. it is clearly shown that especially in Finland the opinionated participatory culture along with creativity are diminishing. This arouses a question related to democracy… will the post modern communication strenghten it or will it erode. As one negative scenario, emergent channels along with the layered transparency will in the end purge the structures of democracy and lead into more divided, controlled and oligarchy systems.

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://blog.microtask.com/2010/02/your-country-needs-you/comment-page-1/#comment-34 uberVU - social comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:06:48 +0000 http://www.microtask.fi/?p=656#comment-34 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by wili: New blog post: "Your Country Needs You!": http://bit.ly/aL6xjm... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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