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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

People can now create mashups without fear of reprisal. It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. POPULAR TAGS. social networking.