The Dead Ushahidi project takes a critical swipe at crowdmapping, making some relevant points along the way: "Using crowdsourcing tech like Ushahidi maps without doing the strategic and programmatic ground work is likely not going to work or change much of anything. Trying to crowdscource a map without a goal or strategy is well, just a map, and pretty soon a dead map." techPresident's WeGov blog takes another view - seeing a 'long tail' effect in the distribution of Ushahidi users; "…with the most successful Ushahidi map of all getting probably twice as many users and the second most successful which had probably one and half more users than the third and so on" But they see that a a sign of the platform's success, raising the question that "Perhaps Ushahidi has made the cost of deploying a mapping platform so low that it is worth the risk of losing what is now a negligible investment of time and money to spin one up?" Read more here.