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‘The Collabowriters‘ is an online experiment in creating a crowdsourced novel, conceived by Chicago-based storyteller Willy Chyr. Each sentence is selected from users’ submissions, which are then...
It makes you think differently about literature. Always thought of as the product of some individual genius, crowdsourcing turns the novel into a collaborated effort. Currently the work on...
Crowdsourcing a novel is nothing new. Plenty of people submit ideas to Kickstarter and Indiegogo to come up with the funds to make a work happen for micro-famous authors. But now, Willy Chyr...
There is no denying crowdsourcing websites are changing the ways artists cover their creation and marketing costs. Even high-profile author and entrepreneur Margaret Atwood has seen the potential,...
Shanna Pinet supports the power of crowfunding to help reach her goal. If you choose to donate to her book so she can fulfill her dream, go to...
Crisis mapping and journalism are both in the nascent stages of collaborating on real-time news connecting diaspora and citizens alike. Al-Jazeera is leading the fray in testing and implementing...
"I tried to write my novel the traditional way: at home, alone in my PJs, overdosing on carbs, and discussing plot points with my cat,"Natalie Linden said."It really wasn't...
Andrea White launched the online interactive "e-book" this summer to give students the opportunity to become an editor for a day before the book hits stores next spring. Students...
Daniel Perlmutter sees it more as a celebration of mass creative production than a criticism. “I think crowdsourcing is incredible. I think it makes so much sense being able to really cut out any...
Wikipedia is an impressive tool and treasure trove of information, put together in such a way that makes crowdsourcing an encyclopedia seem like not such a bad idea after all. But Philip Roth,...
Seed first came out in 2011 and reached number-one on Amazon’s best-seller list with only viral marketing. It’s also something of a product of crowdsourcing creativity itself: Ania Ahlborn...
"I believe crowdsourcing is the way of the future in audience engagement in films - both big and small ones - and it's here to disrupt the way films are experienced," Vuorensola, who...
Despite Congressional laws putting crowdfunding on hold and making normally fruitful investment decisions easy, other methods to obtain much needed funds for projects - like writing books - has...
Also in this issue: Chris Brummer and Daniel Gorfine of the Milken Institute explain what are the things needed to know about "crowdfunding" -- in particular, the sort of regulation...
This crowdsourced creative contest involves reading Hine's novel, then making a commercial about it to be uploaded at Zooppa.com. Seeing how crowdsourcing has emerged in recent times, there...
Melbourne-based Chris Peteres and Rob Ward's "Opena" case for the iPhone 4 makes it simple to remove bottle caps from products like beer with its slide-out bottle opener....
Having created the first novel crowdsourced via Twitter, it was only time before the crowd were to be enlisted once more, this time to translate the novel into English, Swedish, Spanish, German & French.
The story began back in the summer of 2010 when a team of five ambitious folk in Finland decided to experiment with social media, looking for new ways to engage the crowd. Having had enough of growing digital carrots, they decided to see if they could crowdsource a novel. Their mission was to show what can be achieved by the power of crowds using social media and to allow random people the opportunity to reveal their inner authors.
The co-creation process started when Finnish author Mikko Karppi published the opening of the story providing no further direction for the plot. How it was going to unfold, and how the story was going to end was to be left for the crowd to decide. They were sure that the crowd would know better.
In summer of 2010, a crowd of approx. 500 people co-created the first tweeted novel ever, Todellisuudesta Toiseen (From reality to Another), via Twitter. 140story.com allows you to see the novel...
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The Sydney Morning Herald recently invited its readers to help write a “crowdsourced” novel, The Necklace.
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