Posts Tagged with ‘literature’

In the time since Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine popularized the term crowdsourcing, the 'wisdom of crowds' has been implemented in several varying ways across the web resulting in virtually eliminated “cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.”
Digg and StumbleUpon are two examples of crowd wisdom where most of the labor is provided by the user community completely free of charge for each of the companies, though others such as CambrianHouse, iStockPhoto and Threadless compensate users/sellers through royalties and [...]

It’s arrived! And ahead of schedule, we see.
Earlier this week we received a memo sent by the CEO of Red Room, a writer-reader oriented online networking solution. The company head, Ivory Madison, conveyed some happy holiday wishes to the team here, and also mentioned that abovementioned site, which I myself spoke favorably of just a few weeks ago, had gone live.
And it’s as enjoyable as I’d imagined. Like all newly launched Web services, I first ventured to Red Room to [...]

I gotta be honest. Having opened my trusty ol’ PowerBook this morning and looked the latest bits from my favorite feeds, I’ve so far seen almost nothing of immediate interest that I think worth picking apart. Some of the stuff’s recycled material. Various opinions on where the Web is headed in ’08. Tedious Facebook talk. Something about Nokia downplaying speculative predictions of Apple’s and/or Google’s growing influence in the mobile space. You know, just a bunch of fluff, more [...]

As a writer, I?m partial to inventions that have to do with those provocative things we call words. Obviously. So when I read a piece published very recently in Red Herring which spoke of a social network, or ?online community,? meant to bring authors among the likes of Maya Angelou, Amy Tan, James Patterson, Salman Rushdie, and Norman Mailer (now deceased; his widow intends to soon establish a memorial page at the site) and their readers together using [...]