Crowdsourcing is a way for occasional communities to work together: rhizomatic collaboration. Individuals voluntarily taking on the role of a pixel in an image; part of a string of DNA coding for a remotely set function that creates or sustains the whole. In a networked gift economy, everyone is a potential sleeper cell. Collaborative efforts like these find themselves in a growing culture of individuals contributing to a world with a stronger social commons, essentially related to the type of social agency brought about by open design.
EARLY EXAMPLE OF CROWDSOURCING: THE OXFORD DICTIONARY
PHOTO: LIZ WEST — WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/53133240@N00
ONE FRAME OF FAME, ROEL WOUTERS, 2010
ONE FRAME OF FAME: MUSIC VIDEO PROJECT FOR SONG MORE IS LESS BY C-MON & KYPSKI — HTTP://ONEFRAMEOFFAME.COM
TEN THOUSAND CENTS, DRAWN BY 10000 ANONYMOUS ARTISTS, 2008
AARON KOBLIN AND TAKASHI KAWASHIMA — HTTP://WWW.TENTHOUSANDCENTS.COM
MECHANICAL TURK, A MARKETPLACE FOR WORK ➝ THE GENERATIVE BEDROCK OF OPEN DESIGN / MICHEL AVITAL
AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK — WWW.MTURK.COM
A MILLION DOLLAR HOMEPAGE, ALEX TEW, 2005
ALEX TEW — WWW.MILLIONDOLLARHOMEPAGE.COM
GUERRILLA GARDENING ➝ DESIGN AND GOVERNMENT / BERT MULDER
KIRAINET.COM — A GEEK IN JAPAN