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Keep Watching the Iron Skies!
April 4, 2012 Share Forget about global warming, zombie apocalypses, Mayan prophecies and asteroid impacts. Those things are all absurd. What you should be worried about is an impending invasion by moon Nazis. They’re up there, in their secret moon base waiting to return to Earth and complete their plans for world domination.
That’s according to the plot of Iron Sky , a new …
Kony 2012: the crowd to the rescue?
March 28, 2012 Share Unless you’re a solitary hermit with no Facebook friends, you’ll have seen the Kony 2012 film , which racked up an astonishing 70m hits in its first week. You may also have heard the criticisms of Invisible Children, the charity behind the film, and read the charity’s response to its critics.
Leaving aside these issues, the nature of the campaign and its …
Could crowd-driven think tanks be weapons of mass instruction?
March 14, 2012… some of the world’s most persistent problems. Its panel of experts are encouraged to think big and aim for what Google’s Director of New Projects Astro Teller calls ‘moonshots,’ or ideas which “live in the grey area between audacious projects and pure science fiction.”
These ‘moonshots’ are then turned over to the crowd for discussion, debate and refinement. Right now, the Solve for X site is brimming with optimistic, exciting and unrealistic ideas from Teller and his …
Manufacturing success: how to use crowdsourcing to enhance innovation and product development
March 7, 2012 Share Since the global financial crisis, rich countries have increasingly come to see manufacturing as a reliable driver of growth. Globalization, of course, means that it is more difficult than ever for rich countries to compete with developing countries in this sector of the economy.
In this environment, crowdsourcing is increasingly recognized as a good way to enhance …
Happily ever after: how bored workers and their bosses can benefit from crowdsourcing
February 23, 2012… revenue streams were threatened by technological progress. As we all know, the efforts of big record companies to resist progress were far from successful.
Let’s make a deal
A better idea would be to learn something from digital labor and judge employees by their results, not by the hours they spend at their desks staring into the void. Like those enlightened companies that have successfully implemented unlimited leave opportunities for staff, employers may find that if staff …
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