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Bud Caddell’s collaborative Kickstarter project has three days to go but his backers have more than doubled the initial target amount $5k. I just upped my contribution to $100 so that I can fully participate in the adventure.
The proliferation of computer software and the internet has brought many powerful tools to the masses.
From desktop publishing to cheap and powerful design tools, from affordable HD cameras to global publishing platforms such as blogs and YouTube, and self-publishing and self-marketing platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, technology has given power to the amateur and the semi-professional — the power to create media and content that can been seen by millions of people, quickly, cheaply, whenever and wherever.
That’s one of the many stirring quotables from a blog post published last week at John Winsor’s blog.
John is the CEO of Victors and Spoils, the new model (ad) agency that’s applying crowdsourcing models to creativity.
Forget reading manifestos, analysing policy impact on your monthly take-home pay or weighing up the pros and cons of entry into the Euro. Who are our political leaders and, more importantly, what do we really think of them?
What started as a conversation at SXSW launched in double-quick time just over a week ago after a flurry of code production and pixel shuffling.
Tagminster, like it’s cousin brand tags (from Noah Briar), aims to capture the true sentiment of the public; in Tagminster’s case, on the subject of politicians.
Last Tuesday night, I went to the preview for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition (aka the Oscars of the design world) at the Design Museum in Shad Thames.
(Photo credit: Luke Hayes, from the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year blog)
It was a fluorescent evening, buoyed up by free-flowing champagne and ebullient design typeslarging it in hats, big hairdo’s, bright lipstick and serious specs.
Hello. I’m Sara and I joined Made by Many last month. My forte is content, so it seems appropriate that my first post should be all about conversation… specifically the two conversations that go with just about every digital project.
The first of these is all about the customers, the people for whom we’re building this product or service. This conversation is pretty user-centric: essentially, what do they need? What are their problems, and how can we help solve — or at least minimise — them?
1. Service Design Tools: An open collection of communication tools for complex design processes.
2. Personas: A project from MIT, which mines data from around the interwebs to analyse what sort of personality you are. It decided that I like movies and music equally, which is actually true, if a very narrow description of my myriad interests. James was apparently arrested for felony in 1871, which seeing as how he didn’t exist then is rather amusing. Or he had an evil brother in the1800′s. I like the way they explain the logic behind the project though: “It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world where digital histories are as important, if not more important, than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are largely opaque and socially ignorant.”
Last Thursday (27th August) at 09:49 I posted the following tweet…
Ikea want to give the same impression on the web and in print so they use Verdana everywhere. It goes much deeper than just a font folks.
Like most tweets, I posted and thought nothing more of it. In fact, I thought I was a bit late coming to this party as plenty of others had been bemoaning Ikea’s new font choice for a few days.
Anjali announced earlier this week that she’d just created a crowdsourcing wiki. She’s too modest to tell everyone how successful it’s been, so I’m doing that now. It has turned out to be an incredibly useful resource – so useful in fact that with no promotion, media or blog coverage it hit the front page of Delicious, from where it was picked up by ReadWriteWeb.
Crowdsourcing is something that keeps coming up in our work at Made By Many, and I’m sure in a lot of other places as well, given that the power of the internet is growing ever stronger. It’s always useful to see and learn what other people are doing in terms of harnessing the power of online communities. So I’ve created a wiki that lists all the examples of crowdsourcing that I could find listed across the internet. Here it is.
