Kickstarting “Desire”
Yony Leyser, director of the documentary about William S. Burroughs, is making a feature film about Berlin’s queer community, and he needs your help to crowdfund it. Over at Indiewire, Leyser explains...
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Since May, poet David Lehman has been working on a crowdsourced sonnet over at The American Scholar. Lehman wrote the poem’s first line, and then chose the next 13 from reader suggestions, selecting...
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Margaret Atwood only tweets 10 minutes a day.What is the true cost of caring?Crowdsourcing is not the brave new world we imagined.Can funny tweets change the world?The Internet isn’t forever. But can...
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Should writers blog?A unified theory of email. TLDR version: There isn’t one.They aren’t bots. They are people. And they have access to your private information.It is necessary for some scientists to...
View ArticleCNET Publishes Crowdsourced Novel
The technology news site CNET has begun publishing a crowdsourced science fiction novel. The project started with National Novel Writing Month, when CNET’s Erick Mack introduced the idea, calling it...
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Sound & Vision #28: Ken Freedman
Welcome back to Sound & Vision, the Rumpus profile series that spotlights the creative talents of those working behind the scenes in the music industry. Generally speaking, radio today is not...
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
An eight-time Jeopardy! winner is turning the cash into his dream: a bookstore. City Lights in San Francisco is offering up a special section featuring resistance literature. Bookstores in Washington,...
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