Crowd sourcing sounds like “crowd-powered”

Here is an article from Defense Systems that says in one year Peter Lee introduced revolutionary change at the Defense Research Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA). When I first read the headline, I was skeptical. How could one person in a short time make any lasting...

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs

You can already feel the impact user-generated news will make in the upcoming 2008 US elections. This article in Wired Mag highlights a few of the players but ignores several others.I'm thinking The Examiner,...

Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs

You can already feel the impact user-generated news will make in the upcoming 2008 US elections. This article in Wired Mag highlights a few of the players but ignores several others.I'm thinking The Examiner, NewAssignment.net, Cleveland-Park  (a community we've been...

All the World’s a Story: Wired 'Borrows' a Few Ideas from NowPublic

The New York Times is reporting today on a recently announced partnership between Wired Magazine and NewAssignment.net to create the citizen-driven, or ‘pro-am’, journalism news site AssignmentZero....

Updated: The buzz about nowpublic today

Here's a compendium of what the media world is saying about our partnership with AP: " Editor & Publisher: AP Joins Partner in New "Citizen Journalism" Project NEW YORK The Associated Press and NowPublic.com...

Youtube journalism

Moises Naim writes this compelling op-ed for the Los Angeles Times. In this business of fresh, crowd powered news gathering and distribution and like Naim writes, bloggers and activists everywhere realize the power of citizen-produced and Web distributed material as the...

The Crowdsourcerer: NowPublic

By JACK KAPICA Globe and Mail Update"he June issue of Wired magazine coined an interesting buzzword: "crowdsourcing." It's like outsourcing, but with a large number of unpaid or...

Cambrian House - Submit Ideas and the Community builds it (ideas for Web Appl...

Cambrian House - Submit Ideas and the Community builds it (ideas for Web Applications)Earn money from just submitting ideas! Also, win a chance to detonate 25,001 Mentos! 

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