Via Jeff Howe at Crowdsourcing.com.

As you may know, I’m writing a book about crowdsourcing and also operate the blog, Crowdsourcing.com. I’ve been publishing the lion’s share of this book on the Website with the goal of eliciting critical comments that can be collected together and published in an appendix to the book proper. The idea, obviously, is that a book on crowdsourcing would also embody some degree of crowdsourcing. But further, I’m hoping to help pioneer a model of book publishing in which the book can serve as a dialogue as much as a monologue. The comments from readers in the appendix will be used to show that crowdsourcing touches on many issues that can be viewed from multiple perspectives.

I’ve been very happy with the quality of comments, but unfortunately the quantity and diversity among commenters is lacking. In other words, too few people are taking the time to read my work and disagree with me! So I’m appealing to all of you to stop by crowdsourcing.com in the next three weeks and contribute your insights, your experience and your wit. I’d really like to make this little experiment work, but naturally, I can’t do it without the crowd.

I’ve been Jeff’s research assistant for a reason - I’ve studied and talked about Crowdsourcing on this blog as well, which means perhaps some of you are interested in the topic as well. If so - check out Jeff’s blog and see if you have a critique. You just might end up in the footnote to his book.