Sure, crowdsourcing is being used to find a cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease and fund small businesses in the developing world, but what has it done to address the far more serious threat of zombification? Nothing until now. The living (and the dead) can scoff and laugh all they want, but those of us who have had first-hand brushes with the undead (or just really wish we'd had) know how long overdue such a project is. As the creators of LostZombies.com note, "motherf***ing zombies are real!" Motherf***ing A, they are—You think an image like this could be created using Photoshop? Lostzombies is accepting all video, photographic evidence of zombie encounters, which will be stitched together (heh heh) to form a zombie documentary. About time crowdsourcing tackled the big issues. Dig the video call to arms, below:
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Crowdsourcing: A Definition
- I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing:
The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.
The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
The Rise of Crowdsourcing
- Read the original article about crowdsourcing, published in the June, 2006 issue of Wired Magazine.
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Hi Jeff,
The summer issue of Filmmaker also has a nice article on filmmakers & Crowdsourcing which mentions "Lost Zombies" (see http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/summer2008/audience.php )
Posted by: Monica Hamburg | September 03, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Lostzombies is accepting all video, photographic evidence of zombie encounters, which will be stitched together (heh heh) to form a zombie documentary. About time crowdsourcing tackled the big issues. Dig the video call to arms
Posted by: eve isk for sale | June 29, 2009 at 07:56 PM
Lostzombies is accepting all video, photographic evidence of zombie encounters, which will be stitched together (heh heh) to form a zombie documentary. About time crowdsourcing tackled the big issues. Dig the video call to arms
Posted by: kraloyun | December 07, 2009 at 04:53 AM
Scary video!
Posted by: Clenbuterol | July 26, 2010 at 05:46 AM