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Investors are putting more and more money into businesses building Facebook games, apps and services, and the <em>Guardian</em> wants to know just <em>how</em> much: is Facebook the next big economy, or a bubble waiting to burst? Help them find out.

Just how big is the Facebook economy?

Mar 11, 2010

Journalist <b>Paige Williams</b> had a great yarn about a redneck-turned-rocket-scientist-turned-environmentalist, but every magazine in the country rejected it. So she put it up <a href="http://www.paige-williams.com/">free online</a>, and asked people to pay as they saw fit. So far, she's earned $1500.

Crowd-funded journalism

Feb 18, 2010

The <em>Guardian</em> is taking crowd-sourcing to a new level: publishing the manuscript for its new book about the hacked climate change emails and asking readers to help write, edit and "peer review" the tome. Great idea or total gimmick?

Climategate: The Book, written by you

Feb 10, 2010

The latest Aussie snack food to jump on the "name our new product" bandwagon is SupaShake. 20-year-old marketing blogger <b>Zac Martin</b> explains how he has ended up running the $100k campaign for one of the new flavours.

How I ended up running a $100,000 marketing campaign

Dec 08, 2009

Smiths chips latest marketing campaign could teach Vegemite a thing or two about letting readers in on the snack creation process, with the creation "late night kebab" and "butter popcorn" flavoured chips. <a href="http://foodiewanderings.blogspot.com/2009/10/roadtesting-smiths-do-us-flavour.html".Do they taste as good as they sound?</a></a>

Smiths’ “Do Us A Flavour”: When snack foods get crowdsourcing right

Oct 22, 2009

Netflix now has a winner in its much publicised contest to award $1 million to anyone who could improve its movie recommendation algorithm. The crowdsourcing competition is a great business model, says <b>Daniel Indiviglio</b>.

Competitions are great for companies. Just ask Netflix.

Sep 22, 2009

Outraged at <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112530364">revelations</a> that <em>GQ</em> buried a story linking Vladimir Putin to a series of 1999 bombings to keep it out of Russia, <em>Gawker</em> has rallied its readership to translate the article into Russian and spread it online.

Gawker translate censored story into Russian

Sep 06, 2009

The lovely story of how <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/8w2lc/a_pizza_math_question/">a simple mathematical question</a> about pizza topping combinations on social news site <a href="http://www.reddit.com">Reddit</a> led the site's users to create <a href="http://imgur.com/VMxDC.jpg">a 24" pizza with 65 toppings</a>.

65 toppings, one pizza

Jul 27, 2009

The MP expenses scandal was a big story to cover. How'd <em>The Guardian</em>cope? By putting the public-records dump online and asking readers to sift. Brilliant, says <strong>Michael Anderson</strong>.

Lessons from Guardian‘s people power test

Jun 24, 2009

Almost 20,000 have answered <a href="http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/"><em>The Guardian</em></a>'s call for a hand to sort through the 457,153 pages of British MP expense claims.

Guardian harnesses people power for MP expenses investigation

Jun 23, 2009

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