[LINK] Crowd Sourced Editing - An observation.

[TKoltai]

I have recently discovered that detailed research of some topics on
Youtube can turn up additional here-to-fore unconsidered detail because
of different amateur editors perspective on the same story.

Citizen Journalists, (Mayor Bloomberg, NY 2004), are partly to blame for
the meteoric rise of Flickr, Youtube and Twitter.

The promise of profit sharing, advertising wealth is creating a new
class of film-maker, The remixer.

Youtube, both a source of quality and qualitative video content is
serving up every minute 28 times the combined simultaneous audience of
the worlds major Television and cable networks.

Something interesting is starting to happen. As the tools to edit/cut
are becoming more pervasive (affordable) more amateur editors are
stepping up and offering different perspectives of historical events
providing a supercharged level of crowd sourced insight not previously
available through watching only the officially edited version.

This would appear to be the greatest danger to the established order. An
era where the watchers become the editors, some of whom command same day
audiences in the tens of thousands. 

The really interesting part of the process is the selective intelligence
that is often displayed in the remix process most often omitting the
troll postings. Even when the troll content outnumbers the genuine
content.

One could almost call it, Censorship in reverse. Fascinating to watch
it's evolution.

My conclusion is that because the YouTube (referral) scroller related
items are dependant on Page Rank applied to  time based topical
(trending) Keywords, it's rather easy to foil dis-information postings.
However, it's also very easy to use the "-" key. 

I look forward to the day when Google start identifying same C class and
B class +1 voters and providing same in the stats.


TomK