Jeff Howe's in a bit of trouble. He needs a crowd--or at least a good-sized group of commenters--to, for the most part, help him put his money where his mouth is....
Here's the deal: the guy who's work formed the basis for what we did at Assignment Zero has been working on a definitive book on crowdsourcing (appropriate--he *did* coin the term.) He's been posting the chapters at Crowdsourcing and hoping they'd attract a crowd...
But things have been a bit slow. The comments are small and very good, but there's little disagreement (that old "echo chamber" thing that happens when people really like what you're doing.) Consequently, I got an email from Jeff last week about the "problem" (he posted about the conundrum as well.) Now, in the general scheme of things, this isn't much of a problem. Comments are almost always slow to come into a blog unless you're really high volume and/or are really hitting a nerve with people. Not to mention that, in some circles, much of the commenting (including a good amount of linking) has moved over to what could be called the Twittersphere....
Which makes it just a bit tougher for someone to get comments on their work via blogging alone....
Then there's the time-crunch thing. Perhaps folks that would be most interested in Jeff's content are in a time-crunch and don't quite have the leisure time to comment...
But I digress...
I haven't had a chance to read Jeff's work just yet--but I'm interested in it. I've got a little more time these days, so I'm going to jump in and see what it is that I can either poke Jeff about, or simply say "did you think about?" So, if you have a bit of time, go over to Jeff's Crowdsourcing blog, poke around a bit, and let him know what you think, too. Who knows--you might even make it into the book....
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