Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the
Future of Business
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Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine
where he covers the media and entertainment industry, among other subjects. In June of
2006 he published "The Rise of Crowdsourcing" in Wired. He has
continued to cover the phenomenon in his blog and
is currently writing a book on the subject for Crown Books to be
published in July 2008, Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the
Future of Business. Before coming to Wired he was a senior editor
at Inside.com and a writer at the Village Voice. In his fifteen years
as a journalist he has traveled around the world working on stories
ranging from the impending water crisis in Central Asia to the
implications of gene patenting. He has written for U.S. News & World
Report, The Washington Post, Mother Jones and numerous other
publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alysia Abbott, their
daughter Annabel Rose and son Phineas and a miniature black lab named
Clementine.
Podcast related links:
Rise of Crowdsourcing read the original article about crowdsourcing, published in the June, 2006 issue of Wired Magazine
