{"id":539,"date":"2009-03-24T03:24:53","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T08:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/?p=539"},"modified":"2009-03-24T03:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T08:24:53","slug":"wisdom-of-the-crowds-what-to-do-when-colbert-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2009\/wisdom-of-the-crowds-what-to-do-when-colbert-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of the Crowds – What To Do When Colbert Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw an AP story on MSNBC titled Oops: Colbert wins space station name contest<\/a>. I’m a bit of an expert when it comes to letting the internet vote on a name<\/a>, if there is such a field of expertise, and the article strikes me as wrongheaded.<\/p>\n

It’s not an “oops” that Colbert won, nor is it a problem or a mistake. Assuming the result is due to voting viewers and the web’s general affection for Colbert, and not a voting bot, this is exactly what NASA wants. Or at least, what it should have wanted.<\/p>\n

The point of putting something up for a vote online is to involve people in a fun way and come out with a result you might not have otherwise. You can’t have the wisdom of the crowds without expecting a bit of whimsy.<\/p>\n

Here’s to NASA naming their module after Colbert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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I saw an AP story on MSNBC titled Oops: Colbert wins space station name contest. I’m a bit of an expert when it comes to letting the internet vote on a name, if there is such a field of expertise, and the article strikes me as wrongheaded. It’s not an “oops” that Colbert won, nor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[609,66,462,610,611],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-colbert","tag-internet","tag-poll","tag-vote","tag-wisdom-of-the-crowds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}