Comments on: Saturday’s DARPA red balloon challenge

By: Joe Hunkins

Joe Hunkins — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:24:30 +0000

Fun but I think this is not a good social media crowdsourcing experiment. DARPA, perhaps intentionally, is testing a competitive team task where secretiveness pays off. Perhaps it’s looking at the way a small cell of people might use social media to determine locations.

In, for example, a natural disaster you’d see people cooperate rather than compete, and info would flow more freely as it usually does on Twitter and other social networking outreach sites.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:33:53 +0000

This is what one group did:

https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:26653.2642338382/rid:050a5ad69cee0b80d646659a2a3212df

By: ciregh

ciregh — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:34:15 +0000

This team seems to be the most organized so far:
http://balloon.media.mit.edu/speigg