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This is a good example of video for the web from the BBC, highlighting the independent and social media coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
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This balancing act combines three essential elements to set in motion the increasing returns dynamics that makes creation spaces successful: participants, interactions, and environments.
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Transactional versus Relational Collaboration: All of us know the iconic examples of InnoCentive and GoldCorp., in which companies put forward specific problems they face and ask big groups of individuals to identify potential solutions. Crowdsourcing efforts like these are highly scalable, to be sure, but their transactional nature requires clearly and concisely stating both the problem and its solution. Yet in a world of near-constant disruption it's increasingly difficult to know what the problem is. Solutions, when found, are often in the form of experiential, "tacit" knowledge that's difficult to articulate. That's why relational collaboration, in which seekers and solvers build relational capital and trust during a longer period of time, is poised to become the most valuable form of collaboration: it supports the creation of and the exchange of tacit knowledge. For clues about scaling relational collaboration, see our posting on creation spaces.
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Collaboration curves hold the potential to mobilize larger and more diverse groups of participants to innovate and create new value. In so doing they may also reverse the diminishing returns dynamics of the experience curve and deliver increasing returns to performance instead. The evidence for the collaboration curve is, as yet, mostly anecdotal. But these curves may explain the rise of network-centric efforts ranging from open source software development to "crowdsourcing" to "networks of creation." In nearly all of these group efforts, rapid leaps in performance improvement arise as participants get better faster by working with others. These leaps in performance describe the shape and power of the collaboration curve, a new force in our professional and personal lives that turns the experience curve on its side, and explains why the whole of us, working, playing, and, learning together, can often be greater than the sum of our parts.
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Thanks to new tools — Twitter, Facebook, Buzz — human linksare exploding as a means of discovery, which gives lie to the old-media complaints of Rupert Murdoch et al that aggregators are stealing their content. When your own readers recommend and link to your content, is that stealing? Do you want to turn those people away and call them worthless? Facebook, according to Hitwise, is the fourth largest referrer of audience to media. Bit.ly alone causes two billion clicks a month, double Google News’ impact. Soon Buzz will be causing many links (teaching Google what’s hot and relevant, which is a key reason to start the service). And, of course, bloggers have shown the way as curators. Thanks to our newer, easier tools that enable links, humans are becoming a huge force in content discovery, reducing search’s and algorithms’ share and dominance.
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Anyway – this is my starter for ten on how to make live datastore data available to the masses. It’ll be interesting to see whether this approach (or one like it) is used in favour of getting temps to write SPARQL queries and RDF parsers… The obvious problem is that my approach can lead to an explosion in the number of formulae and parameters you need to learn; the upside is that I think these could be quite easily documented in a matrix/linked formulae chart. The approach also scales to pulling in data from CSV stores and other online spreadsheets, using spreadsheets as a database via the =QUERY() formula (e.g. Using Google Spreadsheets Like a Database – The QUERY Formula), and so on. There might also be a market for selling prepackaged or custom formulae as script bundles via a script store within a larger Google Apps App store…
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Example of web-native video – note the jumpcuts, postmodern use of transitions, and tongue-in-cheek style.
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Silver says the BBC has started with sport, because it is simpler. The events and the actors taking part in those events are known in advance. For example, even this far ahead you know the fixture list, venues, teams and probably the majority of the players who are going to take part in the 2010 World Cup.
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Industry surveys have shown that the average number of subscribers at paid newspaper sites is equal to 2.4% of the paper’s print circulation. Newsday famously admitted that only 35 web visitors have coughed up the $5 a week now required to view its site.
