I can dig the idea.....and those who don't, may not understand the extreme benefits of crowd sourcing.
Great minds think alike.....
Many minds make work light....
So like-minded people....UNITE!!
This is what makes crowd sourcing effective; the ability to network with a group of people (probably over the internet) to solve a problem. I see the internet as a gigantic information pool, in which you have the entire world of knowledge pretty much at your fingertips. I could read about any topic I wish to read about. With this huge pool of information, it only makes sense to have people network together to create more information, or to help legitimize the information (prove it's credibility or truthfulness). This is where the ingenious mind of Jimmy Whales and his website WikiPedia comes in.
Wikipedia: Created for the people....by the people!
Wikipedia defines crowd sourcing to me. It is a collection of information in which millions of people from around the world help to produce, edit, and promote. The beauty of wikipedia is that each user has essentially the same rank as every other user; there is no hierarchical system in place, and everybody has the ability to write or edit an article.
So how is wikipedia not an internet cesspool of vandalism and viral-ness?
The real struggle is not between the right and the left. It’s between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks, and no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.” (Jimmy Wales)
Regarding the success of wikipedia, can see that the thoughtful users surely way out the jerks!
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