Comments on: Crowdsourcing Wall Street http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/10/23/crowdsourcing-wall-street/ Confessions of a Social Tools Architect Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:54:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Sherwood http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/10/23/crowdsourcing-wall-street/#comment-17655 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:00:39 +0000 http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/10/23/crowdsourcing-wall-street/#comment-17655 Oops - here's that New York Times link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/politics/26googlebomb.html?ei=5090&en=cf9c1ba8c49c62b2&ex=1319515200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print Oops - here’s that New York Times link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/politics/26googlebomb.html?ei=5090&en=cf9c1ba8c49c62b2&ex=1319515200&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

]]> by: Sherwood http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/10/23/crowdsourcing-wall-street/#comment-17654 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:59:04 +0000 http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/10/23/crowdsourcing-wall-street/#comment-17654 Interesting trend... but you can see where this will go next. Once enough investors rely on these scanning services, a new set of "planting" services will probably go to work, tilting online sentiment to manipulate the results. Politicians are already at this point, using Google to influence voters searching for info on a particular candidate: <a> A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data (New York Times)</a> The tools to organize efforts like this already exist: <a href="http://paylancers.blogspot.com/2006/10/influencing-election-with.html" rel="nofollow"> Influencing an Election with Crowdsourcing (Paylancers)</a> Interesting trend… but you can see where this will go next. Once enough investors rely on these scanning services, a new set of “planting” services will probably go to work, tilting online sentiment to manipulate the results.

Politicians are already at this point, using Google to influence voters searching for info on a particular candidate:

A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data (New York Times)

The tools to organize efforts like this already exist:

Influencing an Election with Crowdsourcing (Paylancers)

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