The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

No.

For starters, in democracy everyone gets an equal vote and can change things every term. Also people are prepared to die on pursuit of democratic freedoms, less so for crowdsourcing freedoms.

thats my fucking boy billy.

for all the sick fucks out there, billy is not a boy i fuck or a boy i fathered. perverts.

reading all the comments maybe campbell should ask:

is crowdsourcing simply the realities of how modern day fucking democracy is conducted and executed with a snappier name?

is crowdsourcing simply focus groups with a snappier name?

have to do everything for that boy. near 40 year old boy. but at least he doesnt wear slippers.

I’m not really going to say much so I can hear everyones comment – however I do think blogs are far less democratic than whatever supposed definition of crowdsourcing is.

Not because of the scale – because in many cases, I’d say certain blogs “reach” more people than many of the supposed sample sizes for crowdsourcing [Hmmmn, “sample size” and “crowdsourcing”, they just shouldn’t be in the same sentence should they!?] … but as I’ve been banging on for ages, the problems with a lot of blogs is they attract individuals/groups who share similar views and so the ability to get breadth of opinion is severly limited.

Except on this blog. Obviously. Ha.

Andy, that ‘focus group’ re-articulation is hysterical, but for the point of this exercise we’ll give that a miss.

Thanks for all the comments so far – especially the explanations of your response, some I agree with, some I think are living in the ‘purist’ [and sadly, not strictly true] category … but it’s all very interesting and I hope some more people respond, but to those who already have, thank you.

Peggy, just got your e – will be writing back very soon.

What I find especially amusing about ad agencies love of this method is that basically they are ultimately doing themselves out of a job – especially on the increasingly-less-rare occasion, the ideas of the ‘people’ are way better than the ideas of the overpaid, overpampered, overegoed creative community.

It would vary on the definition of crowdsourcing you’re using though wouldn’t it Rob?

What the ANDYs did with their Jury – Yes.

Whatever eskimon is describing – No.

What eskimon has described is unfortunately what the author who coined the term had in mind. Send your problem/brief to a ton of people, have them all work individually on it, and only pay one of them.

I think: Collaboration > Democracy > Crowdsourcing

I am not sure where dictatorship fits in that equation 😀

You see that’s the thing I’m finding amusing … the definition certain people have for crowdsourcing is opposite to what others have.

If it’s the ‘sourcing ideas from the masses’ version I would say that is quite similar to companies putting out a tender … because there is always a ‘goal’ that needs to be achieved.

If it’s the ‘actions of the people’ definition, I’d say … well, I’ll leave that up to you to guess, but the point is there are 2 different interpretations out there and regardless of whether someone has written a book or put it in wiki or spouted it at conferences, the fact there is not one single, clear and concise definition speaks volumes … unless the creator of the term is waiting for the masses to respond with the answer, ha!

So it’s just a posh way of putting things out to tender … or in ad language, an RFP.

And I’m very proud of you sticking to the brief NP, of course you ruined it by pointing out you’d stuck to the brief then added 50 subsequent comments, but still very commendable.

And I like those trainers … but then I like Birkenstocks.

No

Yes, if you mean democracy in the sense that Nico described. No, in the strict sense á la northern.

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