More Thinking Inside the (White) Box
As one who had mixed feelings about both candidates last fall, it's important I think to acknowledge budding accomplishments as I see them. And, while I still don't subscribe to all of the new Administration's priorities, no one can question the Obama team's extraordinary fidelity to their platform and campaign promises as well as their pragmatic flexibility in pursuing them.
Yet another remarkable aspect of the Obama crowd is the energy and intelligence that they seem to be bringing to the job.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending some time with one of them: Associate Director, White House Office of Public Engagement--Matt Flavin. Matt it seems is working hard to find ways to materially help "wounded warriors" and Veterans generally. And, I was of course thrilled to have an opportunity to present our Health over IP (HoIP) platform for consideration.
`more on HoIP in a future post...
One of Matt's questions involves a familiar concern over the Quality and reliability of Web 2.0 in general and UGC in particular. Specifically, he asked, how much vetting could a service like HoIP have--i.e., one that relies upon end-users to help motivate and inform other end-users?
Not an easy question; and there are a lot of ways to address it (e.g., as HoIP does). But, in the end the answer lies in how much you want to Trust your users. And, as Jeff Jarvis eloquently points out, the evidence is clear that Volume clearly flows to those [web services] that do. And,with Volume comes "vetting", and with that comes Trust and Security.
I'm wondering, therefore, if the 3D orthogonal relationship (that I described previously a the "Bachman Factor") may be expanded further? Specifically, I'm wondering if Volume and Quality may be directly linked as well? In other words, as Wikipedia and other sites have proved, the Wisdom Of Crowds is real! The more people actively intreracting on a topic seems, uneringly,...unerring.
So, I suppose, the faux-math and accompanying illustration may be edited as follows... What do you think?