Is competition an intrinsic element to generating good content and engagement from the crowd? Again I hear the populist versus elitist aesthetics doing battle as we surf the tides of UGC…
http://www.heyhotshot.com/: the possibilities of opening institutions, creating platforms and stages for great new work, increasing participation. How do we leave the numbers game aside but still welcome a diversity of voices?
Seth Godin - Tribes - the importance of keeping your tribe small.
Protection against GROUP-THINK…is the crowd to be trusted? We seem to value audience opinion, we'll buy in to word of mouth but we get snooty about the crowd "making the work".
So how do we find trusted curators?
Tags: game
picking up on trusted curators idea: the subjectivity of art.
there is a right and wrong. Paddy Johnson says: I really believe there is good and bad and I believe I can tell the difference, that my "opinions" are true.
Finding trusted critics is the ongoing challenge of art for makers and consumers. The crowd-sourced world complicates these relationships but not beyond recognition.