Saturday May 03, 2008
Saturday May 03, 2008 A brilliant meme from Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo. He answers the question of where people find the time for knowledge collection and dissemination a la Wikipedia. He also does a pretty convincing job of explaining that the shift from purely consumptive media behavior to bidirectional engagement with media is a one way trip.
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Overall, great talk.
One particular detail that I thought was a bit off: Clay asserts that the officials (police) would never give out location data on crime, but that the wiki-crime-mapper-guy will facilitate that. Not sure how widespread it is, but my town (Durham, NC) makes this kind of data readily available: http://www.durhampolice.com/crimemapper.cfm
It'd be great, though, if they offered this as a layer to use in Google maps so you could see it in relation to, say, home sales info...
Posted by James Jackson Sanborn on May 01, 2008 at 10:23 AM EDT #
Ah, your example is perfect. In fact, the Durham crime map is updated by two seperate agencies, the Durham Police Department and the Durham Sheriffs Department. The DSD updates roughly every 6 months, but often goes longer between updates. Trying to pressure them to update more frequently or to allow the date to be mashed up with other data isn't very likely to work. I think this is an excellent example of Clay's point that sometimes tapping into the cognitive surplus is easier than arguing with the data providers.
Posted by Jim on May 01, 2008 at 02:36 PM EDT #