Man, these guys just keep improving Zaadz.  And quickly too.

There really isn't a more intelligent social networking, web 2.0 site out there.

From the wisdom of crowds for books, from the pictures, from the backend mail, from the ideas and thoughts wisdom of crowds implementation, to the blogs and the feeds, to the reviews and recommendations, events, and services -

It really is coming together in a way that I've been imagining "a site having", over the last 2 years. 

Kudos, brothers and sisters, kudos!

A good post from Integral Awakening: 

Integral Criticism:  The Solution Is Easy

"Response through authentic, unbiased, research".
 
The problem - this type of research takes time, from what is already a very busy life - and then, there is little compensation, outside of a "job well done".

So - despite the Integral Wiki, despite the great work being done at the P2P Foundation, despite the various integral groups - the integral research project seems to stay the province of the charismatic leaders, the "try this method" people, and the ruminations of the  philosophically-oriented.

I'm thinking about ways to encourage a greater, more practical participation - what are others thoughts?

Who has a lot of time to add to either the Integral Wiki, or integral stuff to the main wiki?  Who has time to participate in a online research project.

Now, that would be pretty easy to create.  Say 40 people in the world - 50, maybe - decide to do the 1 Minute modules every day, for 90 days. detailing the experience, say, to Google Spreadsheets (shared).  During, and after, the spreadsheets can be downloaded, put into either Access, or another database, and statistical analysis run.

That is how EASY it would be, for people to participate.  But even then, who has the time?

There needs to be some carrot, I think, for this stuff.  Peer to peer Foundation began discussing various ways to incentivize the wisdom of the crowds.

I wonder if this could be done with this type of integral research? 

One idea would be, perhaps, some type of community blog, for the research participants, that would publish interesting content, at the same time detailing some of the results.  Then, you add Google Ads, and others, to the site.

Micropayments for participation would probably run in the cents, to the tens of dollars - but there is at least a measurable carrot, no matter how small. 

Of course, you would need to attract enough of an audience to have the site pay for itself - and on top of that have extra!  Which is hard to do!

On the other hand, you can now get a SCOOP community site, for less than 20/month.  That would be easy to raise (or simply pay for) and any extra, again, wouldn't be so much for "making" money, just to have a measurable carrot.

At any rate, it's a good question - participatory integral research projects, that use the web, and pay for themselves. 

Any ideas?