http://mathewingram.disqus.com/enThu, 18 Oct 2007 21:00:04 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/16/jays-lessons-on-news-crowdsourcing/#comment-1316389here's a commentary:<br><br><a href="http://www.socialmediatoday.com/blog/DennisMcDonald" rel="nofollow">http://www.socialmediatoday.com/blog/DennisMcDo...</a>ddmcdThu, 18 Oct 2007 21:00:04 -0000http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/10/16/jays-lessons-on-news-crowdsourcing/#comment-1316388This is really interesting and seems to point out that such efforts need to be managed. Is anyone surprised at that? It also reminds me of what happens whenever a volunteer effort among geographically distributed individuals needs to be coordinated. Usually a small core of individuals emerges who take it upon themselves to shoulder the burden of leadership and coordination. With today's systems, though, the numbers of people and decisions can be increased by orders of magntude, and this increases the likleihood of people veering off in the wrong direction; this in turn increases the need for oversight and management.ddmcdTue, 16 Oct 2007 18:31:45 -0000