DailyDirt: Working The Crowd...
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Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing has been a popular area of experimentation for the last few years, but people still haven't quite figured out how best to work a crowd. Some projects are insanely successful. Other projects seem to fall far short of their goals. Here are just a few examples of projects that could use some help.- A crowdfunded report on gun research might not get full funding on Microryza. The campaign ends soon, so if you want to see more independent research on gun statistics, pony up! [url]
- Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project to classify the numerous newly-discovered galaxies seen by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Hubble Space Telescope. The project started in 2007, and over 150,000 volunteers have helped categorize millions of galaxies. [url]
- The Archon Genomics X Prize challenges teams to sequence 100 complete human genomes in 30 days. The genomes belong to centenarians, but it doesn't look like many teams want to compete for the prize. [url]
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Filed Under: astronomy, challenges, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, crowdwork, galaxy zoo, genomics, guns, science, x prize
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Re: Galaxy Zoo
I will not rest until there is a class of galaxies known as DoggiePooSwirls.
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they should include some non-100yr old people...
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The Last Word
“Re: they should include some non-100yr old people...
Great. Give the NSA another idea.