Crowdsourcing: The Next Digital Age Phenomenon?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Crowdsourcing site Kickstarter
I attended recently what might be termed a crowdsourcing event.
It was a Meetup.com group involving a presentation at a popular New York bar by Pepsi’s Gatorade brand team.  At the end of their presentation, the Gatorade folks solicited ideas for revamping the sports drink’s image from a room of social media and marketing [...]

Desperation is the Mother of Invention: Papers Trying New Revenue Models

Monday, July 20th, 2009

You’ve heard the cliché: ‘necessity is the mother of invention.’  When it comes to the newspaper business, one might also substitute ‘desperation’ for necessity.
In Chris Anderson’ new book, Free: A Future of a Radical Price,  the Wired Editor-in-Chief talks about the psychological barrier that free represents for consumers.  Once the ‘free’ line is crossed, at [...]