CrowdSourcing Michelle Obama’s Inaugural Gown

Having recently celebrated a milestone birthday, I have decided to blow the dust off of my lifelong dream of being a working, profitable fashion designer. Yes America, I have launched a one-woman online campaign to be selected as one of the clothing designers for our...

Opening a Restaurant: Build a Community Around it First: Elements In Washingt...

In the same way that many books built an audience before a word was ever written thanks to their author's penning a blog or contributing to various online publications, the 'model' is applied to other areas. In Online, a Community Gathers to Concoct A Neighborhood Eatery,...

Power to the People, Electric Cars Now! from Finland

Rather than build a brand new electric vehicle a Finish Non Profit Sähköautot - Nyt! (or Electric Cars - Now!) wants to give power to the people by inviting individuals and companies the world over to offer solutions for a kit to turn Toyota Corollas into electric...

Distilling the Wisdom of the Crowds...

Jeff Jarvis, buzzmachine.com set up a down and dirty survey using Google forms. This will be an interesting app to experiment with. Jeff's about journalism has some interesting results though it isn't tabulated well. He says it only took him a couple minutes to set up, so...

Accounts from inside Burma

it's time the world do something about the military oppression in Burma."Buddhist monks are continuing their protests in Rangoon, despite the use of force by the Burmese security forces. People inside Burma have been e-mailing the BBC News website and talking to the BBC...

Crowds are Brilliant - Individuals are Leaders

Over the last few years there has been a push, especially in the business world, to trust the brilliance of crowds to make major financial decisions. This can be seen in many different applications from finding new places to mine for minerals to finding lost people using...