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Is Crowdsourcing Really the Industry’s Dark Side?

Waxing UnLyrical

Those words jumped out of my mouth when I learned what crowdsourcing was. With crowdsourcing you could simply log on to a website and get work from incredibly talented designers from all over the world, with different styles and approaches. Crowdsourcing forces them to do both and they resent it. Here is his guest post.].

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Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book – APE

Writtent Blog

Venture capitalist, entrepreneur, a former evangelist at Apple and the author of 12 books now. Meet his new creation – Ape: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book. Helen: We’re going to talk today about Guy’s last book Ape. Guy, why did you decide to write a book? Helen: How are you doing today?

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #53

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"In addition to being a pretty funny video with a lot of truth to it, this is notable as a crowdsourced effort: the creators credit a subreddit with providing most of the lyrics. Secrets From Apple's Genius Bar: Full Loyalty, No Negativity - Wall Street Journal. apple genius bar. crowdsource. the book oven.

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Introducing Stephen Tiano: Monday Muse #2

Ari Herzog

Stephen Tiano, a freelance book designer, page compositor, and layout artist, wrote a guest blog post here in February 2009 about his blogging and tweeting and how both contributed to his economic success. It was at this place that I really learned about how pages of books should look. Here is Stephen for the second week.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #134

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This behind-the-scenes look at reddit 's biggest-ever AMA is heartening, not just because it was actually fairly genuine, but because I believe crowdsourced, unfiltered threads of discussions are our best hope of improving today's hopelessly flawed representative-democracy model. Hat Tip to Tara Hunt for pointing me at this. barack obama.

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The Truth About the iPad | Blogging and Content Creation | Social.

Convince & Convert

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. I find Kindle to be easier and better as a book device.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Books Take Time to Write Last week, a Twitter user asked a really blunt but surprising question about how to download my book (legally) for free. My book is less than $20 on Amazon, which makes for a great deal and covers years of practice and training. All of this doesn’t come for free for me either.

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