This week's media focused on crowdsourcing, the utilization of many minds in order to achieve a common goal. It's definitely an interesting concept, and I've had my fair share of experience with crowdfunding, which helped finance my study abroad trip to Europe. When I consider the possibility of using croudsourcing creatively, like the Cloud Filmmaking Manifesto or hitRECord, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's crowd-sourced film production company, it presents infinite possibilities for what can be created in the future. Because our thoughts and ideas vary greatly from person to person, creative crowdsourcing allows for as many different ideas to come together that would not be feasible with just one person alone. And as the first article suggested, due to the fact that the contributed work is most likely to be of higher quality since it is assigned in smaller quantities, the overall quality is better.
With hitRECord, as many as 1,000 people can work on a single project. Anyone can contribute as much or as little as possible to any ability. And the work is incredible.
(link attached for reference)
http://www.hitrecord.org/collaborations/7771
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