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May 24, 2010

Crowd-sourcing a new name for, uh, "crowd-sourcing"

Two firms that specialize in crowd-sourcing are holding a contest for -- what else? -- to come up with a replacement term for crowd-sourcing!

This is sooo meta. Or ironic. Or whatever.

The firms are GeniusRocket, and 99 Designs, and they will launch a website tomorrow for people to submit their best ideas. A panel of judges will narrow the field down to 20 finalists, and then -- get this -- the wisdom of the crowd will be used to source the best entry. The best one will win $1,000.

I don't know yet what the contest website for this contest will be, but I'll post it here as soon as I do.

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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