Gina Trapani crowdsources for the White House

[Mitch Wagner]

What if President Obama could talk regularly to ordinary people and
scientists to ask them about issues? That's the vision of <a
href="http://expertlabs.org/thinktank.html">ThinkTank</a>, an open
source project to use a technique called &quot;crowdsourcing&quot; to
get answers to America's problems.

ThinkTank's server software is available to everyone, not just people
whose address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's designed to let a user
put out a question on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media, and
collect and curate responses. Users can then separate responses by
category, note the source of the information, and collate the comments
into useful knowledge, said Gina Trapani, project director at Expert
Labs', the not-for-profit developing the project.

Gina is a blogger, author, developer of productivity tools, and
founding editor of <a href="http://lifehacker.com/">Lifehacker</a>.
She currently blogs at <a
href="http://smarterware.org/">Smarterware</a>. She hosts the <a
href="http://twit.tv/twig">This Week in Google</a> podcast with Leo
Laporte and Jeff Jarvis. Her most recent book is <a
href="http://completewaveguide.com/">The Complete Guide to Google
Wave</a>.

I interviewed Gina on Copper Robot recently.

Read the rest and listen to the interview:

Gina Trapani crowdsources for the White House
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15893/thinktank_gina_trapani#podcast
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