Crowdsourcing
Speaking of logo porn, have to lift a pint to the good folks at the U.S. Strategic Perspective Institute for the most over-the-top, unabashed logo symbolism manifesto in the history of logo symbolism manifestos. Usually these “what our logo means” diatribes fall into the “who writes this shit?” category, but not this one. While a [...]
In announcing their newly launched spec-work writing contests on Twitter, Chicago-based Crowdspring repeatedly twattered a quote from Mark Twain that goes something like this – “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.*” Granted, that sorta IS the business model Crowdspring are launching, but wasn’t sure that the literary giant was cool with his words [...]
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Speaking about Microsoft, the Internet Explorer 6 Must Die meme just got a lot louder, with Google announcing that they’d stop supporting IE6 come March. If you’re not on IE6, good for you. If you are on IE6, you’re probably not reading this, because our site is all hinky and broken. Thanks to IE6. [Mashable] [...]
Crowdsourcing platform Crowdspring has announced that they’re going to be offering writing ‘projects’ using the same spec-work model that graphic designers never seem to tire carping about. Which means we can expect a whole bunch of tireless carping from professional writers too. This ‘taking over the creative world’ thing kinda reminds me of a sci-fi [...]
Business article figures out that one of the main problems with this design crowdsourcing trend is that people aren’t getting paid to do it. Offers a suggestion or two on how to fix this, all of which involve paying people. Yay. [BusinessWeek] Apple does what Apple does. This time, it seizes 16 domains from some [...]
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