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Coversourcing: the winner

Patrick 18/03/08, 17:00

After over 300 entries and 20,000 votes, Hans van Brooklyn’s Ants (above) has been chosen as the UK cover for Crowdsourcing in the Coversourcing competition.

Here’s what the judges thought…

Patrick 16/02/08, 08:58

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Although submissions are now closed, you can still vote on the ideas submitted for our Coversourcing competition to design the UK jacket for Jeff Howe’s Crowdsourcing book

Patrick 10/01/08, 11:32

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The entries are starting to come in for our Coversoursing competition to design the UK jacket for Jeff Howe’s Crowdsourcing book: including this great one from Richard over at AceJet. Can You do better?

Crowdsourcing: Can you design the UK cover?

Patrick 14/12/07, 17:57

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Next summer, Random House will publish the UK edition of Crowdsourcing, Wired writer Jeff Howe’s upcoming book on the new internet revolution driven by the combined power of the masses. In the spirit of the book, we are opening up its UK cover design to the world…

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