We've Got Algorithms. Who Needs Editors?

In an article published last weekend on Mashable, Sarah Kessler asked the question, “Can Robots Run the News?” It’s an important question not just for journalists, but for anyone who creates or curates content on the Web.

The examples Kessler cites span the range of content creation, from automatically generated sports news to the use of [...]

July 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Content Marketing, Crowdsourcing, Editing, New-Media Models, Technology | 2 comments

Google to Rein In Content Farms?

Matt Cutts: Raising the Bar

Is Google poised to slow the growing domination of its search results by content farms like Demand Media and Associated Content? At the end of last Saturday’s episode of the podcast This Week in Google, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team, suggested that it would: “If your business [...]

February 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Crowdsourcing, New-Media Models | 4 comments

There’s a Reason They Don’t Call It Mobsourcing

An article published today by Michael Masnick on his Techdirt blog takes on a Forbe’s opinion piece that tries to debunk the “myth” of crowdsourcing. The Forbes contributor, Dan Woods, claims that the commonly cited triumphs of crowdsourcing like Wikipedia (the supplier of this definition of crowdsourcing) are in fact the products largely of individuals, [...]

September 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Crowdsourcing | Leave a comment