http://computer-vet.com/weblog/2006/12/01/crowdsourcing-helps-investigators.html Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:04:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://computer-vet.com/weblog/2006/12/01/crowdsourcing-helps-investigators.html/comment-page-1#comment-1378 Kalrac Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:01:01 +0000 http://computer-vet.com/blog/2006/12/01/crowdsourcing-helps-investigators/#comment-1378 Just make sure you're taking that picture from a safe distance... Just yesterday, they had to perform an emergency tear down of one of the cranes because it had a crack in the base. I think I'm going to work in a hard hat from now on. Just make sure you’re taking that picture from a safe distance…
Just yesterday, they had to perform an emergency tear down of one of the cranes because it had a crack in the base. I think I’m going to work in a hard hat from now on.

]]> http://computer-vet.com/weblog/2006/12/01/crowdsourcing-helps-investigators.html/comment-page-1#comment-1377 Myrna the Minx Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:52:16 +0000 http://computer-vet.com/blog/2006/12/01/crowdsourcing-helps-investigators/#comment-1377 Cool, I tried to investigate how Gannet was doing this with the Iowa newspaper that was noted in whatever article I read on the subject and couldn't find evidence of "crowdsourcing" at the time. Maybe its there now....was it a Des Moines' paper? Anyway--you and I both know how hard it is to get people interested enough to actually participate on a deeper level than just reading. Maybe if we cause an "accident" and then ask people to solve it? Cool, I tried to investigate how Gannet was doing this with the Iowa newspaper that was noted in whatever article I read on the subject and couldn’t find evidence of “crowdsourcing” at the time. Maybe its there now….was it a Des Moines’ paper? Anyway–you and I both know how hard it is to get people interested enough to actually participate on a deeper level than just reading. Maybe if we cause an “accident” and then ask people to solve it?

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