Is Social Gaming Crossing the Line?
14 years ago
Monday, January 25, 2010
Nothing in Life is Free
in the article "The Myth of Crowdsourcing", the author taps on the fact that there is not really a crowd of people willing to solve problems for anyone. When it comes down to it, if these people were so good at lets say programming, they would be already writing script and selling it. They would not be just doing it for free in their spare time for someone else. The real facts are that you will have a bunch of average joes with nothing better to do on their computers at 3 AM, doing what they find is interesting. With that information, someone who is paid to do the task just will improve on it and make it really useful.
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Towards the end of the article, I think the author comes around to the point that it's not actually a crowd participating in the Crowdsourcing, but instead it's a talented individual how is interested in the compensation. If the right compensation is provided, you can always find an appropriate person for the job.
ReplyDeleteMany times, the people that are imvolved with crowdsourcing aren't average joes. Look at wikipedia for example. The people that put information on the web (that gets to stay up) are people who are intelligent about their field. Also, a lot of the posts that get to stay up on wikipedia are created by people who constantly are giving intelligent information, so certainly these people have credentials. It is not always true that people will do a better job when paid. They could have a lot of knowledge about a certain topic but absolutely hate every job in that field. Crowdsourcing is a great aspect of the growing technology field.
ReplyDeleteA lot of the culture of the Internet is collaborative. I think that with online culture increasingly becoming more and more a part of everyday culture, people have become more willing to be collaborative and helpful, which is why crowdsourcing has become successful. With services like Google Wave now being introduced, collaborative efforts are going to be commonplace in the business world as well as the creative world, and people will become more and more welcoming to the idea of crowdsourcing.
ReplyDeleteThe video I watched dealt with the fact that crowdsourcing is kind of destroying the graphic design industry, which is completely believable since there are so many programs out their that are easy to use, and a lot of people find fun. So i don't believe crowdsourcing could ever harm a coders job because the knowledge is more technical than playing around with photoshop.
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