[p2p-research] new crowdsourcing book is out

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Sam,

concerning hype cycles, I think we should be careful to distinguish our own
circles, even expanded with voices like Wired etc... with the more general
business population ... you'd be surprised ...

and jeff is the same guy who started the hype in the first place with his
article in Wired ...

Michel

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Michel Bauwens
> <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > as you will have seen in the blog, I share your reservations about the
> > crowdsourcing concept and practice but unfortunately, we do not control
> the
> > use of language
> >
> > Jeff's book is good for documentary purposes, lots of examples and
> > background to cases that may be familiar only by reference, but as usual,
> > and this is well described in Adam's new draft introduction to his new
> > ethical economy book, these type of books gloss over many things that are
> > analytically important ....
> >
> > They do not advance any theoretical understanding of the underlying
> > processes,
> >
> > Michel
> >
>
>
> Michel,
>
> Looking forward to Adam's book!
>
> Of course, I don't think you are supporting the idea by passing it
> along. It will be interesting to see how this book, which will likely
> end up being rather popular, will affect ideas about peer production
> among people in more traditional business circles.
>
> One might think that the book came out a year too late, and actually
> missed all of the hype surrounding "crowdsourcing" enthusiasm. But,
> there are huge swaths of people who are just now starting to think
> about these ideas, when many early-adopters have already either given
> up on some of them, or have drastically revised their thinking about
> it from actual experience.
>
> A side note: I can say that I am planning on employing actual
> "crowdsourcing" in the Exploded View project, by  offering random
> pictures of discarded technology parts, and asking people to identify
> them, then collective filtering the identification data. This will be
> part of a database of what is contained in mass produced goods.
>



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