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Pros and cons of crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing Pleasures and Perils

August 14, 2018 by diannejacob 1 Comment

image for crowdsourcing postA guest post by Ken Albala

When Andy Weir wrote his award-winning novel The Martian, he wanted to get all the scientific details correct, so he tried crowdsourcing. He routinely posted questions on his website. He invited critical commentary from experts, which he received. Thus the details of the plot were not only [Read more…] about Crowdsourcing Pleasures and Perils

Filed Under: Social Media, Writing Tagged With: Crowdsourcing information for a cookbook, Ken Albala, Pros and cons of crowdsourcing

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