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When taking a look at the Stock Art hullabaloo from last week, I think the immediate lesson to be learned is that in today’s Web 2.0 world, with its instant internet echo chamber, mob mentality can be a very dangerous thing. An equally important lesson involves our old buggaboos – logo design contests, spec work [...]
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For the few of you who don’t know, SXSW (South by South West) ’09 kicks off this weekend in Austin, Texas, with the Interactive Festival opening tomorrow. One of the interactive panels being promoted concerns the ongoing debate about design contests and it’s euphimistic cousin ‘design crowdsourcing’. Hosted my Mike Samson, co-founder of Chicago based [...]
Don’t usually like to get into political stuff on the blog, but as a wonk, I found this pretty interesting. According to a newly launched website, lots of folks are trying to recruit economic commentator, author and stock broker Peter Schiff to run for a Connecticut Senate seat in 2010. On the Libertarian ticket as [...]
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Is the AIGA softening its position on spec work and design contests? Up until now, the AIGA has taken the position that spec work, crowdsourcing and design contests devalue the design industry. That position seems to be softening.
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Wikipedia (itself one of the first examples of crowdsourcing) defines The Tragedy of the Commons thusly: “The Tragedy of the Commons” is an influential article written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968. The article describes a dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in their own self-interest can ultimately [...]
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