Distributed creativity
From Dar
Peer Review
Distributed communities of practice are established as a good means of validating ideas and research through subjecting draft writings to a peer review process.
Varying mechanism can be deployed
One is to consult a group with a large readership such that the likelihood of somebody having specificic knowledge which contradicts a part of the work, and responding, is increased. This can produce the uncanny feeling in a general interest group after obtaining a useful answer to an obscure question that "This group knows everything!". That's a pattern which might be named Living Encyclopedia
Another is to select a more narrowly focussed group, so the work is being subjected to review by a smaller community of experts in the field, preferably practitioners in a CoP.
Thirdly, one can ask a favour of a small number of friends or aquaintances who are thought to have the requisite ability and are then under a certain amount of obligation to provide the feedback requested.
Peer review in the arts
Do Artists such as sculptors, film makers, musicians, novelists, painters etc use a form of peer review?
Distributed creativity
Examples of collective creativity by distributed artists.
