I've got my kids today (sitter's home sick), so I'll keep this one short and sweet: As many of you already know (certainly the readers of my book), I'm ambivalent about the usefulness of crowdsourcing...
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Take heed: The following has nothing to do with crowdsourcing, but I think you'll find it worth your while anyway. My Wired colleague, Nick Thompson, has written an essay for Washington Monthly about ...
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This is just the stuff for a half-baked, Friday evening post when my traffic begins to dive into the weekend lull.I'm going to admit this right now: There's one big, glaring omission in my book, and i...
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I don't generally blog press releases (Ed's Note: If Jeff did, I could probably get him to post more than twice a week), but one from InnoCentive today caught my fancy. In brief: Non-profit in India u...
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Two words: Thank you! Two more: You rock! Excuse me if I gush, but the response to my little experiment was, quite literally overwhelming. I haven't counted up the number of requests for review copies...
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Today I received an amusing email:Dear Mr.Howe,How are you today? I hope you are doing great! I just saw a copy of your book at Barnes & Noble. I read the inside cover and thought you're really on...
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I received an email from a friend last week: "I'm going to propose... I'll let [NAME REDADCTED] be kidnapped to the most romantic location of New York where I'll ask her the big question. Problem...
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I landed in London last night. It's been a pretty harrowing few days. My wife left last Thursday for rural Illinois, I dropped our daughter off with friends and then took our one year old and caught u...
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Soon I'm going to get back to what I love best—writing about crowdsourcing. For a little longer I'll instead be writing about the writing of crowdsourcing, which is to say, promoting myself and my boo...
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Today I published the first excerpt of the book on Wired.com. It's a close look at iStockphoto, and raises the question of whether the transformation we're seeing stock photography is merely the canar...
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Every once in a great while I find the comments to a post so thoughtful and intriguing I decide to "upstream" them into their own blog post, both to draw more attention to what I deem to be ...
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I leave tomorrow morning for San Francisco and Seattle. I'll be speaking a few book stores, stopping by Microsoft and recording a segment for Dr. Moira Gunn's excellent show, Tech Nation. In reality, ...
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The Dutch music site Sellaband was one of the pioneers of the crowdfunding model (think crowdsourcing, but with money instead of labor). I wrote about the company in the way back era of 2006. Essentia...
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Earlier this morning I received an email from Christine Maynard, a writer and consultant from Natchez, Louisiana. I'm not sure if she heard me on the radio or came across crowdsourcing in some other w...
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Starting around 6 AM tomorrow morning I will be ensconced inside a conference room at Crown Books talking about crowdsourcing. And then talking about it again. And again. And again. I will be doing 27...
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Sure, crowdsourcing is being used to find a cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease and fund small businesses in the developing world, but what has it done to address the far more serious threat of zombificatio...
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When I do media interviews or public talks, I'm almost invariably asked two questions: 1) Are there any big companies engaged in crowdsourcing? and 2) Who is using crowdsourcing effectively? One would...
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To paraphrase (and possibly offend) Gloria Steinem, a blog without an award to give away is like a fish without a bicycle. Undaunted by this fact, I've chosen to inaugurate a crowdsourcing award, whic...
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You probably didn't even know I was in Las Vegas. That's okay, I barely did either. I arrived at 1 AM last night (after 12 grueling hours that started with me getting gridlocked on Atlantic Avenue in ...
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Law enforcement agencies were quick to adopt crowdsourcing. In the fall of 2006 Texas set up the "Virtual Neighborhood Border Watch Program; One detective employed crowdsourcing (and playing card...
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