Crowdsourcing

See you in LA

In Conferences, Crowdsourcing, Publishing on 28 May 2008 with 1 comment

I’ll be on a panel at Book Expo America tomorrow. Here’s the skinny.
Scaling the New Economies: In Search of Book Publishing’s 2.0 Business Model
As consumers grow increasingly used to consuming an enormous amount of information from countless websites and blogs, for free, what’s the business model for traditional publishers? And how do we compete [...]

Coming Up: Vidfest!

In Conferences, Crowdsourcing on 18 May 2008 with 1 comment

I’ll be in Vancouver later this week for my first Vidfest! That’s the Vancouver International Digital Festival, where I’ll be on this panel.

Crowd Pleasers: Achieving your crowdsourcing strategy
Thinking of jumping on the crowd-sourcing bandwagon? Meet the folks that have pioneered this new way of harnessing user content across platforms with great success. This session is [...]

Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

In Crowdsourcing, Photography on 22 April 2008 with Comments Off

I’m an advisor to a really cool project happening right now in NYC. Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.
The Brooklyn Museum is holding a crowdsourced art show. They held an open call for photography on the theme “the changing face of Brooklyn.” They got hundreds of submissions. Now, the crowd is voting on them. The winners will [...]

Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing for Creatives

In Community, Conferences, Crowdsourcing, SXSW on 12 March 2008 with 2 comments

At SXSW Interactive 2008, I delivered a talk called Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing for Creatives. I promised to put my slides up afterward, so here they are on SlideShare. You can also read recaps thanks to Katie and Noor.

Thanks for coming, SXSW! I had a great time and I hope you did too.

See Ya’ll in Austin

In Conferences, Crowdsourcing, Event, SXSW on 3 March 2008 with 1 comment

Just a note that I’ll be speaking this Saturday 8 March at South by Southwest Interactive. Here’s the deets:
The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing For Creatives
The internet and web technologies have torn down a lot of walls. But for every new, empowering opportunity, there’s some slimeball trying to make a quick buck off “harnessing user-generated content.” [...]

Upcoming Appearance: TOC in NYC

In Books, Conferences, Crowdsourcing, Event, Magazines on 3 January 2008 with Comments Off

I’ll be speaking at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference for the second time on 11 February 2008. If you’re involved in publishing, this is one conference not to miss. Register with the code “toc08em6″ for 10% off. Here’s my talk topic:

Audience as Authors: Creating, Managing, and Sustaining a Community of Contributors
“When the going gets weird, [...]

Rule 1 for Collaborative Media: Ask First

In Business, Community, Creativity, Crowdsourcing, Internet, Justice, Photography, Technology on 17 December 2007 with 27 comments

Here’s what happened, as far as I can tell.
Lane Hartwell is a fantastic photographer. She recently went full-time with her photography career.
A few weeks ago, an acapella group called the Richter Scales did a parody of Billy Joel’s song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” with new lyrics about the internet. They made a music [...]

No Spectators

In Business, Community, Crowdsourcing, Geek, Internet, Technology on 19 October 2007 with 3 comments

It’s difficult to remember now, but there was a time when companies looked at the internet and made a ponderous decision about whether or not they wanted to participate. I remember having a serious debate with a museum in Santa Cruz in 1995 about why they should have a website. They ultimately decided to go [...]

Did Assignment Zero Work?

In Community, Crowdsourcing, Journalism, Writing on 16 July 2007 with 4 comments

As powazek.com readers know, I participated in Assignment Zero’s Interview Week over the last few months. Jeff Howe, who coined the word “crowdsourcing,” has a piece in Wired today with the provocative headline: Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned.
It’s a frank assessment with many insights that should be required [...]

My Interview in Wired.com

In Crowdsourcing, Elsewhere, Interviews, Journalism, Writing on 10 July 2007 with 2 comments

In May I participated in AssignmentZero’s Interview Week. The stories have been making their way online at Wired.com this week, and today mine went up! Check it.
Exploring the Dark Side of Crowdsourcing
As the creator of Subvert and Profit, a site that makes a business out of gaming social media site Digg for paying advertisers, “Ragnar [...]