Crowd Sourcing

            It is awesome that we live in a time that we can crowd source. I like the idea of crowd sourcing. Whether it is for funding, help, or information, crowd sourcing allows us to connect with so many people and use everyone’s abilities to maximum potential. Interconnected does a good job of demonstrating this in their film. By using people from all over the world and from so many different cultures, it shows how crowd sourcing can bring people together for a greater good. I feel like crowd sourcing was the best way to do this film since they wanted to show how we are all interconnected through the Internet. Some people see the internet as a bad thing, like it is impairing people, but this movie shows how it connects us all and allows us all to grow intellectually and as a community.

I found the Ted talk to be very interesting. I was amazed to find out their business expenses only being about $5,000 a month for servers. You would think that a website that big would have much higher expenses but when you think about it, most of their workers are volunteers which almost eliminates most of their expenses. I was also amazed at the credibility and validity of Wikipedia. Jimmy talked about how German Wikipedia was tested against other forms of news and articles and Wikipedia won every time. I have often wondered about the truthfulness behind Wikipedia, since most teachers talk bad about it but often, Wikipedia has the correct information and more compared to other scholarly articles. It should be interesting to see how Wikipedia’s plan for Wikibooks turns out.