Thomas Friedman in his book, “The World is flat” mentions about how the playing field is being leveled and brings up a new phrase to counter this – compassionate flatism. He describes how collaboration, networking and technology are acting in flattening the world and achieving what we are in Globalization 3.0 shrank world from size small to size tiny, where it is all about globalization of individuals.
For someone who mined away uninterrupted at memory and imagination for severn years, Kiran Desai, the Booker Prize winner (The Inheritance of Loss) knows only too well, the loneliness of the long-distance writer. She comments “you require loneliness to write. There is such a desire to prop oneself up with writers’ groups but to get to that weird, eccentric, hateful place, you have to do it alone.” But, could writing ride up on the Globalization 3.0
Last week, something very significant happened. (It always feels great to be part of a history happening!) Penguin books along with De Montfort University have attempted novelty in this collaborative enterprise – Crowdsourcing.
Can a collective create believable fictional voice? It is very common to many fields on leveraging the collaborative efforts to achieve the objectives. What about a novel? Are artistic fields immune to this collaborative activity? Well this is what A Million Penguins, strives to achieve, to try and discover a collaborative, creative writing exercise. And amazingly the story is already being shaped up.
A Million Penguins uses the mediawiki engine, which is the wiki format that powers wikipedia. Anyone can join, write and edit the story as is created. Jon Elek, the chief editor at Penguin books edits (moderates) this project. As he puts on the official blog “the wikinovel experiment is not a place to prove to Penguin we should publish your book. I hope very much that the project shows evidence at some level of brilliance, but that this will stem from the collaborative nature of what you’re doing rather than the individual contributions. I would expect that some bits will be stronger than others, since naturally there will be all sorts of people, with varying degrees of talent, getting involved.”
After youtube.com where the world witnessed some of the great talents is being unearthed, amillionpages.com attempts at creating a online novel with collaboration of interested participants. Unlike, youtube where it is purely personal contributions available for others to comment, this will be a unique experiment where all the collaborators chip in to create a common story with no pre-defined boundaries. As Jon Elek mentioned, “We shall wait for the next two months”. Visit www.amillionpenguins.com
For someone who mined away uninterrupted at memory and imagination for severn years, Kiran Desai, the Booker Prize winner (The Inheritance of Loss) knows only too well, the loneliness of the long-distance writer. She comments “you require loneliness to write. There is such a desire to prop oneself up with writers’ groups but to get to that weird, eccentric, hateful place, you have to do it alone.” But, could writing ride up on the Globalization 3.0
Last week, something very significant happened. (It always feels great to be part of a history happening!) Penguin books along with De Montfort University have attempted novelty in this collaborative enterprise – Crowdsourcing.
Can a collective create believable fictional voice? It is very common to many fields on leveraging the collaborative efforts to achieve the objectives. What about a novel? Are artistic fields immune to this collaborative activity? Well this is what A Million Penguins, strives to achieve, to try and discover a collaborative, creative writing exercise. And amazingly the story is already being shaped up.
A Million Penguins uses the mediawiki engine, which is the wiki format that powers wikipedia. Anyone can join, write and edit the story as is created. Jon Elek, the chief editor at Penguin books edits (moderates) this project. As he puts on the official blog “the wikinovel experiment is not a place to prove to Penguin we should publish your book. I hope very much that the project shows evidence at some level of brilliance, but that this will stem from the collaborative nature of what you’re doing rather than the individual contributions. I would expect that some bits will be stronger than others, since naturally there will be all sorts of people, with varying degrees of talent, getting involved.”
After youtube.com where the world witnessed some of the great talents is being unearthed, amillionpages.com attempts at creating a online novel with collaboration of interested participants. Unlike, youtube where it is purely personal contributions available for others to comment, this will be a unique experiment where all the collaborators chip in to create a common story with no pre-defined boundaries. As Jon Elek mentioned, “We shall wait for the next two months”. Visit www.amillionpenguins.com
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Interesting piece on crowsourcing!! Will check it out.
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