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Crowdsourcing

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Reddit Tries Crowdsourced Legislation With “Free Internet Act”

by Eric Limer | 11:45 am, January 31st

When it came to battling SOPA and PIPA, Reddit was on the front lines. Considering Reddit was the first to announce an anti-SOPA blackout and was responsible for calling attention to anti-SOPA and anti-PIPA petitions that the White House was ultimately forced to acknowledge, it’s no surprise that Redditors are itching not only to defend the Internet, but also for a new challenge. That’s why they’re trying their hands at something really ambitious: Crowdsourced legislation.

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Elsewhere on the Internet

500 People Trace Lines, Fail Beautifully [Video]

by Max Eddy | 2:45 pm, February 18th

Vimeo user clement valla gave users an exceptionally simple task: Trace the figure you see on the screen. The twist was that the next user didn’t see the original shape, just the previous user’s trace. Very quickly, the line barely resembled the original image, became shakey, foreshortened, and then just a collection of hash marks veering off to the right of the screen.

The result is not only interesting to watch, but a commentary on communication. Like the telephone game, it becomes impossible to reconstruct the original information, and that even the simplest form of communication — drawing a line — is hardly perfect. So, marvel at the horror of our collective isolation, or marvel at the beauty of the animation; but please, marvel.

(Vimeo via BoingBoing)

Gap Kills New Logo: Back to the Original “Blue Box”

by Robert Quigley | 9:40 am, October 12th

A week after Gap‘s new logo consisting of Helvetica plus a square was met with nigh-universal derision online, the company has announced that they’re officially scrapping the idea — as well as the halfheartedly-proposed logo crowdsourcing initiative — and will be returning to their “iconic blue box.”

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AND LET IT BE KNOWN

MapQuest Going Open Source

by Michael Suen | 12:00 pm, July 9th

Maps finally join the open source movement: Starting with Blighty and later heading to the United States, AOL‘s MapQuest is unrolling an open source mapping project today that draws on free and editable map data from around the world. The initiative, named “MapQuest Open,” will use the new design for MapQuest, its beta mode unveiled last week.

OpenStreetMap, an Wiki community of cartographers, will provide the data. What’s more, AOL has announced it will be investing $1 million to encourage open source mapping in the U.S. As the OpenStreetMap site explains, “because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, [it holds] back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.”

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Vote with Your Stomach: 10 Crowdsourced Foods

by Robert Quigley | 6:36 pm, February 8th

Dunkin Donuts‘ next new donut will be powered by viewers like you. According to Mashable, the company is celebrating its 60th birthday by crowdsourcing the design of their next donut in the “Create Dunkin’s Next Donut” contest, with the winner receiving $12,000 and seeing their name in lights their donut for sale at Dunkin.

But they’re not the first: below, 10 food and food ideas created by committee:

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