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Great example of contained, small-scale collaborative map. It’s not really “crowdsourcing” — it’s just a set of 130 people getting info done: Ushahidi.com - Mapping Reports of The Post-Election Crisis in Kenya

It’s odd to see the classification methods in these alert systems — neighborhood, hotels, financial.  My AlertSF - Home

I don’t see any reason why we can’t start our own Memorandums of Understanding amongst ourselves and share video data feeds among a huge network of private citizens.

City Council approves ordinance for surveillance cameras in private Chicago businesses | Chicago News, Politics, Culture and Commentary - WindyCitizen.com

This model could easily be applied to predicting the news, rather than assembling it.

Knewsroom: A Look at the Latest Social News Site - ReadWriteWeb
What I find really interesting about Knewsroom is that the more you participate and the more the community appreciates and respects your participation, the more power you have to shape the Knews. This is a good way to incentivize regular participation and is the exact opposite of the way Digg treats its most passionate users. As you get more involved, you accumulate watts, a form of currency on Knewsroom, that you can ‘invest’ in proposed topics or created stories to show how much importance you attribute to them and how important you think it is to cover them in the next day’s paper.