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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 SOUNDBYTE VERSION: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software. crowdsourcing, published in the June, 2006 issue of Wired Magazine. Last week, we launched a contest to design our the official One Book, One Twitter crest. We got some truly creative and inspiring entries. fun. Out of the nearly thirty badges that were submitted, hes picked his three favorites. Well have one final period of voting that will last for 48 hours. For this round of voting, well be using Reddit, the same tool that we used to choose American Gods as the first #1b1t As we mentioned before, the winning badge will become the official badge for One Book, One Twitter. It will appear on our Twitter doesnt stop there: were working with Mr. Gaiman and Harper Collins to have 1b1t imagery appear in bookstores as well! Well have more details Lastly, despite the fact there can only be one ultimate winner, were so impressed with the effort put forth by the community, we want to available as t-shirts, with proceeds from sales going to a literacy-related charity yet to be determined. This may take some logistical effort than we realize right now, but its just one idea. If you have others, wed love to hear them in the comments. Now back to the matter of choosing a badge. Below, youll see each of the three badge finalists, but remember to go here before having to go to sleep—isnt what struck me. Its that the author is a woman in Malaysia wearing a hijab youre interviewing me. My de*pest desire was to give many people from around the world with nothing in common one thing in common, and that Now on to the nitty gritty.One of the first wrinkles weve faced concerns whether to break book discussions up by chapter, using