Saturday, November 06, 2010

The Cooks Source Affair

In case you didn't hear about this over the past week, we've just seen another interesting example of crowdsourcing: when the magazine Cooks Source stole a tart article (tarticle?) right off a woman's blog, the author went public with the rather assinine response that she received from the magazine's editor. That sent the heaving masses both into flame-mode (which is always fun to watch!) and into virtual search parties, scanning Cooks Source's online postings for other instances of the magazine's bad behaviour. Not surprisingly, they found many, many other similar offenses, all of which are now well-documented.

There's nothing else quite like the power of the Hive Mind, when it's fully deployed like that!

[Also, there's this take on it.]

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