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Crowdsourcing

NASA astronaut Mike Fossum at the International Space Station

NASA Needs Your Help Solving Radiation and Branding Problems

NASA is crowdsourcing the public to help them solve some of their most difficult problems
By Alec M. Beresin
Is Wikipedia right about the Daily Mail?

How Wikipedia and Stuxnet Can Help Humans Prepare for the Future

A new book makes the case that humanity is hurtling towards a “faster future,” and there’s no turning back.
By John Bonazzo
Knowing smile of conscious trolling, or smirk of legitimate insanity?

You Can’t Crowdsource Creativity: A Letter to Kanye and Riff Raff

Companies often hire less-experienced people to join their team because they can get them for less money. Is that what's happening here?
By Justin Joffe
Image via

A New Single, and the First Ever Fan-Sourced Tour

By James Beshara
Donald Trump speaking in Iowa. (Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page Is the Busiest of the Cadidates

By Brady Dale
(Photo: Courtesy of Evie Borthwick)

Digging Data Out of Dinosaur Journals

By Brady Dale

Get Paid to Go to the Scene of News With Fresco Dispatch

By Brady Dale

Brooklyn Coder Lauren McCarthy Wants To Cure Your Crippling Social Awkwardness

By Marie Solis

Company With $5 Million In Funding Turns To Kickstarter For Even More Cash

By Jack Smith IV

Here's How I'm Spending the $589,660 I Raised on Kickstarter

By Erik Dahlman
Goodbye Blue Monday won't say farewell just yet.

Goodbye Blue Monday … for Real?

By Anna Perfecto Canlas
Vintage Queens

Queens Library Crowdsources New Digital Archive

By John Bonazzo
A sandwich Ms. Smith made for Mr. Schulte. Maybe he could hide the ring in the arugula? (Facebook)

<em>Groan</em>. Mr. 300 Sandwiches Wants You to Tweet Him Proposal Ideas

By Jordyn Taylor

Who’s Your Favorite Media Power Couple?

By The Editors
GoFundMe.com

Crowdsource Your Own <em>Girls</em> Experience

By Drew Grant
The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs

Get Life Advice From AJ Jacobs And His Facebook ‘Friends’

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Hi there! (NASA Photo: H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team, Via WikiMedia)

Don’t You DARE Try to Name Pluto’s Moons After Some Internet Nonsense

By Kelly Faircloth

If Silicon Valley Isn’t Like High School, Quora Certainly Is

By Jessica Roy
Mr. Roth, literary lion. (Photo: flickr.com/cdrummbks)

It Takes an Open Letter to Wikipedia for Philip Roth to Get a Correction

By Kelly Faircloth
Internet Week 2012.

Crain Communications Now In Charge of Making Internet Week New York Happen

By Kelly Faircloth
Mr. Tao (article.wn.com)

Will Work For Porn: XXX Site Partners with Crowdsourcing Platform So You Can Earn Credits for Porn

By Jessica Roy
Mr. Mankins (Google+)

Crounty, a New Startup from Fast Company’s CTO, Lets You Offer Rewards for Successful Crowdsourcing

By Jessica Roy
The Carnegie Museum of Art on the opening night of the 1999/2000 International. (Courtesy real00/Flickr)

Help a Carnegie International Co-Curator With His Research

By Andrew Russeth
Challenge: Good AC on the A/C please

ChallengePost, Kickstarter for Problems, Raises $4 M.

By Ben Popper
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