crowdsourcing

Digital Consultant links for December 3rd through December 4th

These are my links for December 3rd through December 4th:

Crowdsourcing business documents – Spudaroo is yet another crowd-sourcing website, but this crosses contest with Elance, by asking writers to submit articles, blogs and business plans against a client brief and the client selects a 'winner' to pay a set fee too. As a professional writer I worry about this trend: the marketplace is great for clients, but exploits out of work freelancers by getting them to complete work they are likely to not get paid for and making a skilled profession into an 'X Factor' style competition.
GooTube mulls fee-TV streams – Looks like Google's YouTube are looking to cut a deal to charge folks $2 to stream a TV show fresh off telly just once – yet the iTunes model is a download-to-own model for a similar price. Four years on since I last worked in IPTV, it's the old chestnut again of DRM and how people want to access and keep content. My bet is that the free-to-stream is the only model viewers will stomach (unless for 'premium' content like football matches), but download-to-own, following the DVD model, will have some legs – but maybe only very short legs.

These are my links for October 9th from 08:54 to 09:27:

Techniques for Segmenting Content Across Media – More on transmedia storytelling and taking audiences from journeys between platforms, self-contained narrative or cross-platform narrative, including the example of the Mitsubishi seewhathappens.com advert in two parts – one TV, the cliffhanger of the advert resolved by going online.
Lance Weiler: When The Audience Takes Control – Indie cross-media filmmaker Lance Weiler interview fans of gaming and films and discusses ways of building audience buy-in and interaction into the content creation process. Also a list of useful resources and tools to encourage dialogue with audiences.
Alternative Reality Game Stats – Transmedia expert Christy Dena gives a summary of all the major Alternative Reality Games to date, with stats on participants, production budget and links to interesting review and articles.