re: The Brave New World of Open Expertise

James Gross — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:16:20 GMT

Great post Marc and great comment Mike. I have nothing but the utmost respect for the guys at Techdirt and for their Insight Community. We can all learn from community projects and posts like this.

re: The Brave New World of Open Expertise

Mike Masnick — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:07:39 GMT

Hi Marc,

Interesting post. Glad to read your thoughts.

On the issue of independent analysis, we actually think the Insight Community model works even *better* because you're getting multiple viewpoints from multiple independent parties -- and given how we recruit people, you can rest assured that there are always a varied set of opinions. The folks in the community are *passionate* and don't back down. That's what we like, and that's why the Community generates such interesting output.

As I've said before, the Insight Community model is designed to make you find out what you *need* to hear, rather than what you *want* to hear.

We're doing our best to create a platform that not only creates interesting conversations, but also rewards people for their expertise.

It's certainly a learning process, and it seems clear that some aspects of what we do can be explained more clearly, but overall, the output has been fantastic, and we're continuing to build in more features and tools to make the process work even better... while hopefully causing less confusion.