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Techdirt has been following the fascinating saga of Iceland's  crowdsourced constitution  for nearly two years. Back in October 2012,...

A little while back we wrote about Nathan Myhrvold's sniffy comment that if you're not doing anything to help people suffering f...

Although crowdsourcing is all the rage at the moment, there has to be a worry that this is just the latest fad in the world of technology...

One of the premises of this blog is that the success and methodology of open source are not one-offs, but part of a larger move towards o...

Digg's pretty established these days as a way of crowd-sourcing newsgathering. How about applying the same idea to politics ? Lots of s...

Crowdsourcing represents an interesting attempt to generalise the open source methodology to non-technical areas. The basic idea is to tap i...

I don't have much time for either of the main UK political parties (or many of the others, come to that), but I must give some kudos to ...

This is brilliant : The former prime minister Tony Blair has received millions of pounds through an unusual mixture of commercial, charitabl...

I read with interest this morning the following : “Snitchtown” is an essay by Cory Doctorow that first appeared in Forbes.com in June 2007. ...

This was inevitable: a friend in Iran that I have been in touch with via Skype (which seems to work very well)” told him that a specific We...

The Guardian 's crowd-sourcing of the initial analysis of hundreds of thousands of PDFs of MPs' expenses is fast becoming mythic. I...

Interesting development here : The United States has unveiled an unlikely weapon in its battle against drugs gangs and illegal immigrants at...

Although the post calls this "open source health research", it's more a matter of crowdsourcing, since it lacks many of the e...

This is a fab use of pooled images combined with automation: Flickr hosts a wide range of beautiful images, but a new project built on top ...

Sounds sensible : The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a rob...

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is not only a great example of the open source methodology being applied outside software, it also started in the UK, wh...

Just because Wikipedia is wonderful (well, mostly) doesn't mean that there's no room for other wikis serving narrower domains. For ...

Fun things to do with the Internet: According to Ms Eberlein, the term “human flesh search engine”, a literal translation of the Chinese, w...

Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect...

A novel approach to localisation: They are picking and choosing markets (Spanish was opened first, two weeks ago; today German and French w...