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Re: 10 WordPress Plugins to Help Build Community

danielha — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:35:30 -0000

Just curious to hear -- what issues did you have with Disqus?

Re: Want to no hire a Mediawiki Administrator? James Mitchell doesn’t!

LauraHale — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:10:52 -0000

Glad people found it useful. The bot mining thing really is something that is a problem. The accounts need to be consistently reported to LinkedIn. (Who need to remove them. It hurts their brand.)

I wanted to believe so ignored it as an eccentric kook. But too much stuff didn't add up when he started talking to me... and his statement of "Trust me" about when I'd get paid? Yeah. Work for a year on something that he admits is legally dubious and an end round around getting referral fees? Where he refuses to salary as a gesture of trust? Thanks. No. Screams scam. (And he should be reported to the EEOC for the illegal hiring practices.)

Re: Want affiliate links from Fan History? Here’s how!

LauraHale — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:56:40 -0000

:D That's what my LiveJournal is for. ;-)

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:17:25 -0000

The "mass collaboration" (a component of the definition) comes from the voting side, not the submission side. Well, thats not entirely true. They have a critique section, where people can submit designs and get feedback from the community prior to submitting them for voting.

With threadless, the jury is the community. They select, via vote, the top designs, of which some are selected to print. Its in their best interest, that the shirts sell, so that it validates the entire process. It is, in the strictest sense of the definition, crowdsourcing. Does it have competitive components? Sure. Is it a strict competition? No.

Is Wikipedia? Sure. A person can make changes, and the hope is that another member of the community will correct mistakes. The community as a whole, will ensure that the information is correct because its in their best interest that the information contained in the Wikipedia.

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:36:48 -0000

The way threadless works is that designs are voted on, then a collection of
the highest scoring designs are reviewed for selection. There is no winner,
per se. The crowd helps select, they are not the final selection.

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:39:16 -0000

Thats not crowdsourcing, thats a contest. Again, crowdsourcing is solving a
problem by asking the crowd to come up with a solution or a number of
solutions for no reward.

Thats the major issue. People are calling things crowdsourcing that are not
crowdsourcing.

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:37:05 -0000

Brandon is one smart dude. I like much of his writing.

Remember crowdsourcing is about problem solving. Community management is about fostering the community so that when you need to turn to them to help solve a problem, they will be ready and willing to help.

Thats the trick. Creating an environment where your community is passionate and where a open line of communication exists is paramount to successfully utilizing crowdsourcing as problem solving tool.

Passion isnt inherent nor can it spontaneously appear. It comes from exactly what you wrote: a sense of belonging, and understanding that each person has a real effect on the future of the business. Its non-competitive. Its open communication.

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:30:42 -0000

I think that you are missing the point...slightly. The idea is that if the crowd is large enough, and they are focused on improving the product and/or company, then the "wisdom" is derived from that size. Its not about the "right" decision; its about the "right" decision for the community.

With Threadless, its about what designs would the community buy if they were on a tshirt. With TomTom its about the accuracy of their maps and the additional information (POI) than enhance those maps.

The key to crowdsourcing is that its the community improving the community. I would argue that Digg lost its community a long time ago. That it became less about improving the community and more about individual gain. That the community at large was no longer a cohesive unit focused on the improvement of Digg as a whole.

Wisdom, is often in the eye of the beholder, and if a company allows their community to drive their direction they may make conventional unwise decisions, but market smart ones.

Re: Lets All Do The Crowdsource

micah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:26:06 -0000

The definition of crowdsourcing is using "a crowd" (usually unpaid) to solve a problem. In TomTom's case its keeping its maps up to date. Its a classic usage of crowdsourcing. Your perception is where crowdsourcing has gotten off the rails.

The idea is that if you take a bunch of folks and throw them at a problem, the outcome will correct for the outliers and the folks trying to game/break the system. But, at its basis, its allowing a group of people (usually a large group of people) help solve a problem.

Take Threadless, usually used as the poster child for crowdsourcing. They are using a group of people to come up with the "best" tshirt designs (read most sellable). Then Threadless selects from the group of "best" tshirt designs and prints those. This is much different than CrowdSpring, which is not traditional crowdsourcing, but rather a contest. With Crowdspring, the "crowd" competes against itself to come up with a single design selected by the crowdspring user. In the traditional sense, it is not crowdsourcing.

Re: Mobile Video Streaming: Perché QIK E' Così Fico

RobinGood — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:16:11 -0000

Ciao Pongino,
QIK rimane la mia soluzione preferita al momento anche se ci sono nuove interessanti alternative all'orizzonte:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/mobile-live-video...

Un cordialissimo!

Re: Your Competition Doesn’t Exist

sbspalding — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:58:12 -0000

I think everything boils down to expectation management and you're right, the first expectation that needs to be managed is your own.

Lucid point as always Justin, thank you.

Re: 3 Out Of Every 4 Businesses Die Of Neglect

sbspalding — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:44:39 -0000

Ha! Indeed. ;)

Re: 3 Out Of Every 4 Businesses Die Of Neglect

sbspalding — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:44:08 -0000

Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it. :)

Re: You’re Just Like Everyone Else

sbspalding — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:40:59 -0000

Thank you! As for your question, the pictures always come from the good people at Flickr through http://search.creativecommons.org/

Re: Strategie Efficaci Per La Comunicazione Online: Partono I POP Workshop Con Robin Good

RobinGood — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:22:27 -0000

Sarebbe bello averti Fabrizio.... ma attento ci sono solo 4 posti liberi rimasti.

Re: A loss for words.

micah — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:34:43 -0000

I bet they did. Here is a website I did for her like 8 years ago:
http://www.renakrasno.com/

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraHale — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:34:57 -0000

That's optimistic. I know of people with paid sites who still lost all their content. In a way, free sites like Geocities are more reliable for saving content. If people had paid accounts, the content might have closed, their could have been a malicious mySQL injection that brought down their site, etc. (Anyone remember Simplenet and all the stuff that got lost when THEY closed down or kept migrating? That was a paid site.)

Paid sites are not necessarily any more reliable as historical archives of internet history than free ones.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraHale — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:32:44 -0000

Was a Geocities site optimized better than your site?

I don't quite get why people don't find this sort of preservation work important and meaningful. That is a lot of potential history and a lot of important content that was lost. Several organizations understood the importance of this including the Internet ARchive, Archive Team, and Fan History and worked to preserve it so that 20 years from now, people will be able to understand exactly what the Internet was like in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraHale — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:29:01 -0000

http://lewiscollard.com/geocities-and-the-adven... has a number of awesome caps of Geocities sites.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

LauraHale — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:20 -0000

Yes, because there is content on Geocities that you cannot find elsewhere. So the people cheering the death of Geocities are basically cheering the death of a lot of original research, original fiction, historical information and content. Three cheers for the short sighted people who don't grock that, caught up only in 1990s era web design as the internet's biggest failure.

Re: Conversione E Video Encoding On-Demand: Guida Ai Migliori Servizi Online

RobinGood — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:02:32 -0000

Ciao Ivan,
troppo buono. Per quello che io ho visto, utilizando un po questi servizi, funzionano anche con file decisamente più grandi. Ma anche tu non hai tutti i torti. Se uno vuole fare conversioni online senza limiti di dimensione di file è meglio che utilizzi servizi tipo quelli che ho elencato qua: http://www.masternewmedia.org/on-demand-video-e...

Re: Disqus: The Official Blog - Disqus Comments: Moderating comments from your Post

danielha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:09:54 -0000

Thanks Justin.

Re: Disqus: The Official Blog - Disqus Comments: Closing comments on Wordpress and some bug fixes

danielha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:09:38 -0000

Hi J,

We are working on a new plugin that will fix some of the biggest issues. Please hang on tight.

Cheers,
Daniel

Re: DISQUS | Service Status - Disqus Comments: Notifications are almost caught up

danielha — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:08:57 -0000

Could you forward one of those emails to me? daniel@disqus.com

Re: Conversione E Video Encoding On-Demand: Guida Ai Migliori Servizi Online

RobinGood — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:58:02 -0000

Ma a me non risulta essere così... cosa te lo fa pensare?